Japon

Werner Bischof
Japon
Photographs: Werner Bischof
Text: Robert Guillain
Publisher: Robert Delpire
135 pages
Pictures: 109
Year: 1955
Comments: Hardcover under illustrated dust jacket, 28,2 x 23 cm, b&w and color photographs. First edition. In very good condition, other than some lights tears on the bottom of the dust jacket, on the bottom of the spine and the right bottom corner of the cover, and a light yellowing of the pages due to the book's age.
A collection of pictures of Japan reunited in an album by Werner Bischof right before his death in 1954.
Werner Bischof (1916-1954) was a Swiss designer, photographer and photojournalist. He pursued, during his short life, a double quest. That of a certain order of things, magnified by a constantly controlled sense of light, but also that of a social order disrupted by wars. His images of near universal chaos, from famine in India to Peru, where he died in an accident in 1956, are famous.
The first of several books published by Robert Delpire is Japon (1955), the only one issued while Bischof was alive, It won the first edition of the prestigious Nadar Prize in 1955.














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