Carnet de route. [Collection "Neuf" ; 18] [Anjali Hora, de Bombay -- La Rue -- Le marche Indien -- Les danses de Katha-Kali -- L'observatoire de Jaipour -- Le village de Ba-Rou -- Hong Kong et les pecheurs des iles -- Les enfents de la guerre a Pousan -- La nouvelle generation -- New York -- Mexique -- Au Perou -- Machu Picchu -- Elements biographiques]

Bischof, Werner Adelbert, 1916-1954. ; Gasser, Manuel.

Published by [Paris] : R. Delpire, Printed in Switzerland, Conzett & Huber, Zurich, 1957, 1957

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134 p. : ill., [76] photos. (some col.) ; 29 cm. ; 4° ; LC: TR140 ; OCLC: 3244209 ; grey cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Anjali Hora, de Bombay -- La Rue -- Le marche Indien -- Les danses de Katha-Kali -- L'observatoire de Jaipour -- Le village de Ba-Rou -- Hong Kong et les pecheurs des iles -- Les enfents de la guerre a Pousan -- La nouvelle generation -- New York -- Mexique -- Au Perou -- Machu Picchu -- Elements biographiques ; Bischof was born in Zurich, raised in Germany, and returned to study at the Zurich School for APplied Arts, under the tutelege of Hans Finsler, one of the proponents of the Neue Sehen New Vision School, the highly technical dispassionate school of photography. He switched to painting later and then with the onset of the Anschluss returned to Switzerland, where in 1942 he returned to photography, focusing on people. After many years on various shoots, he found himself in Peru on assignment for Life Magazine. He accompanied a geologist, Ali di Szepessy, and the two were killed in a car wreck. ; "Bischof . died when his jeep plunged over a ravine in the Andes on a quest for the faces, the lives, of harmony there."--Marco Bischof ; 76 photographs ; tear to page 44/45 and 56/57 ; back hinge starting ; covers soiled ; FAIR.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carnet de route. [Collection "Neuf" ; 18] [Anjali Hora, de Bombay -- La Rue -- Le marche Indien -- Les danses de Katha-Kali -- L'observatoire de Jaipour -- Le village de Ba-Rou -- Hong Kong et les pecheurs des iles -- Les enfents de la guerre a Pousan -- La nouvelle generation -- New York -- Mexique -- Au Perou -- Machu Picchu -- Elements biographiques]
• Publisher: [Paris] : R. Delpire, Printed in Switzerland, Conzett & Huber, Zurich, 1957
• Publication Date: 1957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book