id:			141748
accession number:	1965.329
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.329
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Shinto Priests in the Temple Garden, Meiji, Tokyo, 1952. Werner Bischof (Swiss, 1916–1954). Gelatin silver print; image: 31.4 x 37.2 cm (12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts 1965.329

title:				Shinto Priests in the Temple Garden, Meiji, Tokyo
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creation date:			1952
creation date earliest:		1952
creation date latest:		1952
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creditline:			Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts
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culture:	Switzerland
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Swiss 20th Century
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CREATORS

* Werner Bischof (Swiss, 1916–1954)  - artist
Werner Bischof Swiss, 1916-1954

Photojournalist Werner Bischof studied in his native Zurich with Hans Finsler at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts in the early 1930s. He worked as a freelance graphic artist and photographer and then as a staff photographer and designer for Graphis Publishing House. In the 1940s he continued to freelance, contributing pictures to Du and Life magazines and photographing for the Swiss postwar relief organization in Italy and Greece (1946-47). In 1949 he joined magnum Photos, taking assignments for such publications as Epoca, Paris-Match, Life, and Fortune.
	Deeply sympathetic to the suffering he witnessed after World War II, Bischof committed himself to recording the plight of humans around the world. He photographed in India (documenting the famine in 1951), Korea, Indochina (covering the war), Europe, Mexico, South America, and Japan, where he made a series of photographs during a year-long stay. In 1954 he was killed in a road accident while on assignment in Peru. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 31.4 x 37.2 cm (12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1965
	opening date:   1965-10-27T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1965</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).

	title:		Photograph Exhibition
	opening date:   1971-07-13T04:00:00
	<i>Photograph Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-September 19, 1971).

	title:		Source Material for Studio Projects
	opening date:   1972-06-20T04:00:00
	<i>Source Material for Studio Projects</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20-August 27, 1972).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'New York World\'s Fair, 1965: "Photographs in the Fine Arts."', 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, October 27 - November 14, 1965: "Year in Review 1965," CMA Bulletin, 52 (November 1965), p. 157, no. 174.', 'opening_date': '1965-10-27T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, 1979: "Selection of Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'}

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 98
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