Cop Tossing Night Stick, New York City, 1953
Reflecting House, New York, 1953
Advertising Signage, Southern States, USA, 1954.jpg
Highway Construction, San Francisco, 1953.jpg
Roof of the Bus Terminal, New York, 1953
Reflection on a Jaguar, New York, 1953
S. Beckenstein, New York, 1953
Subway Signal, New York, 1953
Madison, New York, 1953
Rushing cars, New York, 1953
Bus Commute, New York, 1953
Car in Snowfall, New York, 1953
Reflection in Store Window, New York, 1953
Steam Escapes, New York, 1953
Reflection in Car Windscreen, New York, 1953
Tugboat and barges, New York, 1953
Steam Train, Chicago, 1953
Street Canyon, New York, 1953
Painter of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA 1953
Fireball, Chicago, USA 1953
Building with Lights, Chicago, USA 1953
Cruising at Night #2, New York, USA 1953
Reflection in Water, New York, USA 1953
The Golden Gate Bridge From Above, San Francisco, USA 1953
A Tree's Shadow, Georgia, USA 1953
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, USA 1953
Shades and Blinds, New York, USA 1953
Werner Bischof – USA (June 2019)
Werner Bischof was born in Switzerland. He studied photography with Hans Finsler in his native Zurich at the School for Arts and Crafts, then opened a photography and advertising studio. In 1942, he became a freelancer for Du magazine, which published his first major photo essays in 1943. Bischof received international recognition after the publication of his 1945 reportage on the devastation caused by the Second World War.
In the years that followed, Bischof traveled in Italy and Greece for Swiss Relief, an organisation dedicated to post-war reconstruction. In 1948, he photographed the Winter Olympics in St Moritz for LIFE magazine. After trips to Eastern Europe, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, he worked for Picture Post, The Observer, Illustrated, and Epoca. He was the first photographer to join Magnum Photos with the founding members in 1949.
Disliking the ‘superficiality and sensationalism’ of the magazine business, he devoted much of his working life to looking for order and tranquility in traditional culture, something that did not endear him to picture editors looking for hot topical material. Nonetheless, he found himself sent to report on the famine in India by Life magazine (1951), and he went on to work in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Indochina. The images from these reportages were used in major picture magazines throughout the world.
In the autumn of 1953, Bischof created a series of expansively composed colour photographs of the USA. The following year he traveled throughout Mexico and Panama, and then on to a remote part of Peru, where he was engaged in making a film. Tragically, Bischof died in a road accident in the Andes on 16 May 1954, only nine days before Magnum Photos founder Robert Capa lost his life in Indochina.
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‘One of the towering figures of 20th-century photography and reportage.’ The Guardian
