id:			323256
accession number:	2018.558
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.558
updated:		2025-02-09 07:47:57.522000

Study of Alligator, 1969. Werner Bischof (Swiss, 1916–1954). Gelatin silver print; paper: 32.9 x 32.9 cm (12 15/16 x 12 15/16 in.); image: 16.5 x 22.9 cm (6 1/2 x 9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2018.558

title:				Study of Alligator
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creation date:			1969
creation date earliest:		1969
creation date latest:		1969
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creditline:			Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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culture:	Switzerland
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Swiss 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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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: Paper: 32.9 x 32.9 cm (12 15/16 x 12 15/16 in.); Image: 16.5 x 22.9 cm (6 1/2 x 9 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "IV(roman numeral)"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto, upper right corner: "3L"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "WB-F-05"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso "5500-"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "FCC F 8933"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "BISCHOF, Werner"
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	inscription:	Written in sepia tone ink on verso: "2 4 5 X"
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	inscription:	Written in sepia tone ink on verso: "W Bischof(signed)"
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	inscription:	Written in sepia tone ink on verso: "kopf eines alligatore"
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	inscription:	Written in sepia tone ink on verso, lower right corner: "'Nor(?)"
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