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In 1916, with the Great War reducing northern Europe to a treeless, shattered void, a boy was born to the prosperous director of a pharmaceutical firm in Zurich. He was named Werner. It was not an auspicious time to be born and, indeed, his mother died soon after. As a child young Werner sought order in his life by dissecting snails and photographing, in the limpid light of his own creation, the elegant whorls revealed. He did not become the physical training instructor (a compromise) his father wanted him to be. He did not become the painter he had once wanted to be in Paris in 1939, on the...

This monograph commemorates German photojournalist Werner Bischof (1916-1954), who reported on devastation in Germany, France and the Netherlands after World War II. Featuring over 100 black-and-white photographs, this collection of Bischof's images conveys his sense of empathy and humanity.