Fine Print: New York City, 1953 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)

Fine Print: New York City, 1953 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm)Swiss photographer Werner Bischofs images of 1950s America opened up a new way to see the world, fresh after the war. Bischof seemed to revel in the architecture of this new industrialized space cars, bridges, buildings became patterns in the larger picture he was seeing. Pictured here, the New York skyline, 1953.

with scores of magazine and book covers

and so we watch these fleeting figures forever waving to us

The euphoria grew even greater on New Year’s Eve

he was invited to join Bobby and his wife in their convertible where – lying down to avoid ruining the picture for the other photographers – he was able to take this remarkable image

Werner Bischof was given the assignment of photographing the war in Korea in 1951

in rich and bright colors

Bare branches rise behind it

As the book’s narrative progresses

The book complements his wider work on fragmentation

he weathered a huge amount of personal scandal throughout his career

which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific

and has captured moments in and around his hometown over the years