a busy street from early morning to late at night
which appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine on April 9
He has described his images as “composed visions where [my] arrangements try to capture the magical essence inhabiting and animating the world of appearances
Approaching the precipice of early adolescence
it is also a poetic and autobiographical portrait of a place Power came to love
Fine Print: Abstraction (Tension). Zurich, Switzerland, circa 1941 Thomas Dworzak Fine Prints a busy street from earlyWerner Bischof set up his studio near the end of the thirties in a suburb of Zurich. After 1939, Switzerland had become an island of liberalism surrounded by a sea of fascism. Treating it as his ivory tower, Bischof devoted himself to his work as a studio photographer and portraitist, perfecting his photographic technique and training himself to be a master of seeing. Patience, care and precision were cultivated, and, as a result, a highly poetic