Fine Print: On the road to Cuzco. Peru, May, 1954 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)

Fine Print: On the road to Cuzco. Peru, May, 1954 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)Werner Bischof first specialized in and perfected a graphic, subtle use of light and shade on inanimate objects, but eventually became compelled to bear witness to the human suffering of post war Europe. His work as a photojournalist took him across Europe to Japan, Korea and later Peru, but Bischof always considered himself an artist. His humanistic approach towards existential human issues combined with his artistic talents made him a classic of

He says it was an unknown family link that brought him from his native Norway to the former Soviet region

Maude Callen

He left the country in 1980 and did not return for 17 years

the wounds of over forty years of apartheid cannot be quickly or easily forgotten

1200 of which in English/Russian (this edition)

the gap between unfamiliar and familiar in a world of flux becomes a home of sorts

an everchanging pandemonium of delicate details and habitual rhythms

Jonas Bendiksen’s series Satellites is the culmination of several years travelling across the southern borderlands of the former USSR to explore the unrecognized states

before the skyscrapers

settling in Chicago

Its cadences

including shooting portraits of some of the most iconic cultural figures of the 20th century