René Burri - Explosions of Sight

René Burri

ISBN 10: 3858818453 / ISBN 13: 9783858818454

Published by Scheidegger u. Spiess Verlag, 2020

About this Item

René Burri - Explosions of Sight | René Burri | Buch | 240 S. | Englisch | 2020 | Scheidegger u. Spiess Verlag | EAN 9783858818454 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: GVA Gemeinsame Verlagsauslieferung Göttingen GmbH & Co. KG, Carsten Schlieker, Postfach 20 21, 37010 Göttingen, info[at]gva-verlage[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: René Burri - Explosions of Sight
• Publisher: Scheidegger u. Spiess Verlag
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858818453
• ISBN 13: 9783858818454
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 277W x 221H x 25D millimeters 277 millimeters width by 221 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1225 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

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Synopsis

A member of the famous artist-owned photo agency Magnum Photos, Swiss photographer René Burri (1933–2014) found himself wherever history was happening during the late twentieth century. His countless travels took him across Europe and the Americas to the Middle East to Japan and China to document the twentieth century’s major events. His extraordinary sense for people and their personalities resulted in remarkably candid portraits of celebrities, such as architects Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, and Luis Barragán; artists Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Tinguely; and Che Guevara, whose 1963 portrait with a cigar is one of the world’s most famous and widely reproduced photographic portraits.

Published to coincide with a major exhibition at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, René Burri: Explosions of Sight draws from Burri’s vast archive. With the museum, Burri staged both his first exhibition and his first major retrospective and maintained a close relationship throughout his life, entrusting it also with the conservation of his estate. The book brings together for the first time Burri’s entire body of work, both photographic and nonphotographic, including previously unpublished archival documents, as well as book designs, exhibition projects, travel diaries, collages, watercolors, and objects Burri collected. In doing so, it offers a new and uniquely intimate view of one of the world’s greatest photographers.
 

About the Author

Julie Enckell is an art historian and director at HEAD—Genčve, where she heads the cultural development department.