Werner Bischof. Point of View
The Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini presents an exhibition, curated by Marco Bischof, Andrea Holzherr and Tania Kuhn, offering a wide-ranging overview of the life and work of the Swiss photographer Werner Bischof (Zurich, 1916 - Trujillo, Peru, 1954), one of the most important photojournalists of the 20th century.
A member of the Magnum Photos agency from 1949, Bischof distinguished himself through a deeply humanistic approach to photojournalism, one that combined documentary rigour with poetic intensity.
The exhibition comprises 200 original vintage photographs, accompanied by a series of contact sheets and a documentary that, with a perspective that remains extraordinarily relevant today, tell their stories with empathy, care and profound respect for human dignity.
The exhibition unfolds across four chronological sections that retrace the key stages of Bischof's career: Switzerland 1932-1944 recounts his years of training and his first experiments; Europe 1945-1950 brings together photographs documenting a Europe devastated by the Second World War, a theme that profoundly marked the photographer's work and vision; Asia 1949-1953 gathers the reportage he produced in India, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Indochina; and finally, North and South America 1953-1954 bears witness to the final phase of Bischof's research, with his new visual explorations of the American continent.
