Fine Print: Mercury, Zurich, Switzerland, 1941 Cornell Capa

Fine Print: Mercury, Zurich, Switzerland, 1941 Cornell CapaWerner Bischof set up his studio near the end of the thirties 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

Pictured here

contrasting the brutal realities of the war in Ukraine with the distorted perceptions within Russian society

part of the story

In this version of the journey

chainlink fence

his works sit between fiction and reality

codirected with Alfred Guzzetti)

He was a punk from the West

Many have attributed its universal appeal to its perspective from behind

an administration of an infinite death

Their societal condition was officially ‘stone age’

This image of New York from above