Werner Bischof

Werner Bischof (26 April 1916 – 16 May 1954) was

a Swiss photographer and photojournalist.

He became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1949, the first new photographer to join its original founders.^[/

Bischoff's book Japan (1954) was awarded the Prix Nadar in 1955^./

Life and work

Bischof was born in Zürich, Switzerland. When he was six years old, the family moved

to Waldshut, Germany, where he subsequently went to school. In 1932, having abandoned

studies to become a teacher, he enrolled at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich, where

he graduated cum laude in 1936.

From 1939 on, he worked as an independent photographer

for various magazines,

in particular, du, based in Zürich.

He travelled extensively from 1945 to 1949 through

nearly all European countries from France to Romania and from Norway to Greece.

His works

on the devastation in post-war Europe

established him as one of the foremost photojournalists

of his time.^[==

He was associated into Magnum Photos in 1948 and became a full member in 1949.^[1]:454

At that time Magnum was composed of just five other photographers, its founders

Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, David Seymour, and Ernst Haas.^[1]:454

The focus of much of Bischof's post-war humanist photography was

showing the poverty and despair around him in Europe, tempered with his desire

to travel the world, conveying the beauty of nature and humanity.

In 1951, he went to India, freelancing for Life, and then to Japan

and Korea. For Paris Match he worked as a war reporter in Vietnam. In 1954,

he travelled through Mexico and Panama, before flying to Peru, where he embarked

on a trip through the Andes to the Amazonas on 14 May. On 16 May his car fell off

a cliff on a mountain road in the Andes, and all three passengers were killed.

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Werner Bischof (γεννημένος 26 Απριλίου, 1916 στη Ζυρίχη? † 16 Μαΐου του 1954 
στο Trujillo, Περού) ήταν ένας από τους πιο γνωστούς φωτογράφους ντοκιμαντέρ
 του 20ου αιώνα και μέλος του γνωστού Magnum Photos οργανισμού.

Επίσκοπος, ο γιος ενός εμπόρου αυξήθηκε για πρώτη φορά στην Ζυρίχη και 
στο Kilchberg, πέρασε τα μαθητικά του χρόνια, αλλά στο Waldshut, 
όπου ο πατέρας του από το 1922 με επικεφαλής το υποκατάστημα της ελβετικής
 φαρμακευτικής εργοστάσιο. [1] Η περίοδος αυτή επισκιάστηκε από 
τη μητέρα πρόωρο θάνατο. [2] Στη συνέχεια μετακόμισε στην κατάρτιση των
 εκπαιδευτικών Schiers ον φωτογράφο René Burri. 

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