The World of Werner Bischof; a photographer's odyssey 1959 HC

Description: A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards with gilt lettering. The Good/Fair dust jacket with original price, has a fair amount of chipping and small tears but only to the edge, now protected in mylar. Bischof's photographs—full of love without any hint of sentimentality—reveal a great human soul who was devoted to documenting the brotherhood of man. His world embraced the people of many countries, England, Hungary, India, Indochina, Korea, Japan, Peru, the United States, and it reveals to us a photographer with a profound vision of human dignity and the unity of all mankind. The people he photographed trusted him. They knew that he was looking at them not as a curious outsider but as a friend. They paid him the supreme compliment of continuing to behave as they had before they were aware of his camera. Many people are praying before the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, but they are not paying any attention to the photographer who must have been fully visible to all of them. His photographs of the effects of war on children are extremely moving, and the photographs of the famine in India show us that here is a man who was deeply involved and in despair that he could not alleviate the suffering. Bischof seems to have had an uncanny ability to find the best place, the best time, to make photographs where design and content complement each other to strengthen emotional impact. His early photographs, a sunflower head closeup, a snail shell, the stress pattern of a piece of molded celluloid under polarized light, are all tightly, exactly, composed, and they predict the design feeling that pervades his later work. Art Forum

Price: 37 USD

Location: Halcottsville, New York

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