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Werner Bischof: Questions to My Father ~ Bischof, Werner; Bischof, Marco HC SIGN
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A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- ISBN
- 9781904563259
- Book Title
- Questions
- Publisher
- Trolley
- Item Length
- 11.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Photography
- Topic
- Individual Photographers / General, General
- Item Width
- 8.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Trolley
ISBN-10
1904563252
ISBN-13
9781904563259
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30766540
Product Key Features
Book Title
Questions
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Individual Photographers / General, General
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Length
11.4 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-360284
Dewey Edition
0
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
779.092
Synopsis
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 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 a post-war Europe in poverty and despair expressed infinite hope for the human condtion, yet he was only 29. Less than 10 years later he was dead, leaving behind among his last photographs that of a Peruvian child playing his flute on the edge of a ravine. It is now an iconic photograph with a fatal allure. Bischof himself died when his jeep plunged over a ravine in the Andes on a quest for the faces, the lives, of harmony there. Fifty years later his son Marco has gathered together 70 previously unpublished photographs by Werner Bischof. They powerfully reiterate the man his father was, the nature of his humanity and his search for a benign and beautiful cognisance of the brief and terrifying world he lived in., 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.
LC Classification Number
TR820.B56 2004
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