WERNER BISCHOF (1916–1954)
Photo Classics II 1947-54

Start price: €5.000

Estimate: € 8.000-10.000

A portfolio of 10 Gelatin silver prints, printed in 1971, double-weight semi-matte paper, each mounted on cardboard, with title page and original portfolio box, perfect condition

c. 30 x 40 cm

Each photograph numbered on the cardboard, edition no. 50/100 (Photo-Graphic Editions Limited, London) The portfolio contains some of his most iconic images.

• Hungarian child hearing of the Red Cross relief 1947
• Indian dancer preparing for the Jasmin Festival, Bombay 1951
• The Observatory in Jaipur, India 1951
• Famine in Bihar 1951
• Shinto priests in the Temple Garden, Meiji, Tokyo 1952
• Sleeping child on its mother's back, Hongkong 1952
• Rice-field in the Delta of the Red River, Indochina 1952
• Women returning from market, Ba-ran, Indochina 1952
• Stepping-stones at the Heian Temple, Kyoto, Japan 1952
• Flute player near Cusco, Peru 1954