Fine Print: Photogram. Zurich, Switzerland, 1941 Sport

Fine Print: Photogram. Zurich, Switzerland, 1941 SportWerner Bischof set up his studio near the end of the 1930s in a suburb of Zurich. After 1939, Switzerland had become an island of liberalism surrounded by a sea of fascism. Treating it as his ivory tower, Bischof devoted himself to his work as a studio photographer and portraitist, perfecting his photographic technique and training himself to be a master of seeing. Patience, care and precision were cultivated, and, as a result, a highly poetic

The work is a collection of over 630 images cut from the project’s contact sheets

appeared in 1965

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documentation and cataloguing

he recalls

‘My photographs are not intended to represent an objective account of the Iraq war against which to compare the texts

May God give them peace