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Italy: Trolley Ltd 2004. 4to. 160 pp., 70 b/w photos. Still shrinkwrapped. In 1916, with the Great War reducing northern Europe to a treeless, shattered void, a boy was born to the prosperous director of a pharmaceutical firm in Zurich. He was named Werner. It was not an auspicious time to be born and, indeed, his mother died soon after. As a child, young Werner sought order in his life by dissecting snails and photographing, in the limpid light of his creation, the elegant whorls revealed. He did not become the physical training instructor (a compromise) his father wanted him to be. He did not become the painter he had once wanted to be in Paris in 1939, on the brink of another devastating conflict. He became Werner Bischof, the man, and a photographer of incalculable artistry who found in both order and the chaos he confronted and experienced a sublime beauty, a humanity that was singularly his own. His photographs of the post-war Europe in poverty and despair expressed infinite hope for the human…
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Questions to My Father Hardcover - 2004
by Werner Bischof; Marco Bischof (Editor); Werner Bischof (Photographer)
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- Title Questions to My Father
- Author Werner Bischof; Marco Bischof (Editor); Werner Bischof (Photographer)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition British First
- Pages 1
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Trolley Press, Italy
- Date 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781904563259 / 1904563252
- Weight 2.32 lbs (1.05 kg)
- Dimensions 11.66 x 8.4 x 0.77 in (29.62 x 21.34 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005360284
- Dewey Decimal Code 779.092
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