AFRICA

4°- 127 pp. Short introductory In english, otherwise fully illustrated with full-page b/w and color photo-reproductions. Emil Schulthess (* 29 October 1913 in Zurich ; 22 January 1996 on the Forch , municipality of Maur ) was a Swiss photographer . After training as a graphic designer, he worked at Conzett & Huber in Zurich from 1937 to 1957, where he was responsible for the graphic design of the magazine Du and the Manesse Library of World Literature . The 24-part photo series about the midnight sun , which he shot in northern Norway in June 1950, made him internationally famous when it was published in Life magazine on July 30, 1951. As art director of the Swissair calendar, he was responsible for its design from 1951 to 1990. From 1957 he worked as a freelance photographer and author. In 1958 he accompanied a crew of the United States Antarctic Program to Antarctica. In recognition of his documentary work there, the cliff Schulthess Buttress is named after him.