Background information
"In his brief life, Werner BISCHOF (1916-1954) travelled half the world to create the oeuvre that would seal his reputation as a master of classic black-and-white photography. Visiting southern Germany after the Second World War ended, he was appalled at the sheer scale of the destruction and set about documenting Europe in the aftermath of war. In those early days of photojournalism, he had his pictures published in the leading magazines of the western world and became a founding member of the legendary MAGNUM Photos group. The 1951 photo essay by Werner BISCHOF on famine in India won him international acclaim. His travels in Asia inspired a life long interest in the relationship between tradition and modernism, culminating in the photographs of Japan. Working in the war zones of Korea and Indochina, BISCHOF became increasingly disillusioned by photojournalism and, after two years in Asia he returned to Zurich. In the autumn of 1953 he created expansively composed colour photographs in the USA. He then travelled on to Central and South America in search of harmony between man and nature. The Swiss Magnum photographer was killed in a road accident in the Andes in 1954." (© Steidl, Verlag 2006)
Content
The out-of-print photo volumes 'Pictures' on the work of Swiss Magnum photographer Werner BISCHOF provides a comprehensive survey of the Swiss photographer's output straddling the divide between art and journalism. His work in the nascent field of colour photography is also well represented.
About Swiss Magnum photographer Werner BISCHOF (1916-1954)
Photo books by and with works by Werner BISCHOF
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Marco Bischof, Simon Maurer, Peter Zimmermann
- Format
- English Ed.! HC with dust jacket, 25 x 27 x 5 cm., 464 pp., color & b/w ills., text language: English