The Swiss photographer Werner Bischof started his career in studio photography in Zürich and later documented Europe in the aftermath of World War II. He joined the famous photographers group Magnum Photos in 1949 and travelled the world.

Disliking the ‘superficiality and sensationalism of the magazine business, he devoted much of his working life to looking for order and tranquility in traditional culture, something that did not endear him to picture editors looking for hot topical material. Bischof died at the early age of 38 in a car accident in the Andes of Peru.

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