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WERNER BISCHOF
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print |
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Werner Bischof Designed by astronomer Jai SINGH (1699-1744), the observatory was built over a period of 16 years. It was finished in 1734. |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
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Werner Bischof Vintage gelatin silver print ferrotyped |
All Werner Bischof prints are available in the gallery.
Please contact us at info@artef.com to get information on prices.
WERNER BISCHOF
Bischof was born in Zürich, Switzerland. When he was six years old, the family moved to Waldshut, Germany, where he subsequently went to school. In 1932, having abandoned studies to become a teacher, he enrolled at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich, where he graduated cum laude in 1936.
From 1939 on, he worked as an independent photographer for various magazines, in particular, du, based in Zürich. He travelled extensively from 1945 to 1949 through nearly all European countries from France to Romania and from Norway to Greece. His works on the devastation in post-war Europe established him as one of the foremost photojournalists of his time.[citation needed] He was associated into Magnum Photos
in 1948 and became a full member in 1949. At that time Magnum was composed of just five other photographers, its founders Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, David Seymour, and Ernst Haas. The focus of much of Bischof's post-war humanist photography was showing the poverty and despair around him in Europe, tempered with his desire to travel the world, conveying the beauty of nature and humanity. In 1951, he went to India, freelancing for Life, and then to Japan and Korea. For Paris Match he worked as a war reporter in Vietnam.
In 1954, he travelled through Mexico and Panama, before flying to Peru, where he embarked on a trip through the Andes to the Amazonas on 14 May. On 16 May his car fell off a cliff on a mountain road in the Andes, and all three passengers were killed.