21st Nov, 2025 17:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2025

 
  Lot 82
 

WERNER BISCHOF (1916–1954)
Villager at a military outpost, Red River Delta, July 1952

Estimate
€1,000 - €1,600
 

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Lot details

Start price: € 800

Estimate: € 1,000–1,600

English:

Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1970s on single-weight glossy paper, in good condition. Photographer's Magnum stamp and numbered "11" on the reverse.

During the First Vietnam War from 1945 to 1954 the nationalists under Ho Chi Minh fought for the independence of South Vietnam against the French, who ruled the protectorate of Indochina. The country was then divided up, with Ho Chi Minh ruling in the north. In the French-ruled south, Bishop travelled from outpost to outpost through the Red River Delta commissioned by the magazine "Paris Match" in 1952.

Deutsch:

Silbergelatineabzug, geprintet in den 1970ern auf dünnem, glänzendem Papier, in gutem Zustand. Rückseitig Magnum-Fotografenstempel und nummerischer Vermerk "11".

Im Ersten Vietnamkrieg von 1945 bis 1954 kämpften die Nationalisten unter Ho Chi Minh für die Unabhängigkeit Südvietnams gegen die Franzosen, die das Protektorat Indochina beherrschten. Das Land wurde daraufhin aufgeteilt, wobei Ho Chi Minh im Norden regierte. Im französisch beherrschten Süden reiste Bishop 1952 im Auftrag der Zeitschrift „Paris Match“ von Vorposten zu Vorposten durch das Delta des Roten Flusses.

Image Size: 25.3 x 20.4 cm

 

Auction: OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2025, 21st Nov, 2025

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