Fine Print: Mercury, Zurich, Switzerland, 1941 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) in spite of this prosperous

in spite of this prosperous past and the city’s pivotal role in Britain’s industrial and cultural development

subtle use of light and shade on inanimate objects

Newsha Tavakolian

at prayer or working shifts at the factory

Eugene Smith’s exhaustive photo essay of “Pittsburgh

Fine Print: Mercury, Zurich, Switzerland, 1941 Size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) in spite of this prosperousWerner Bischof set up his studio near the end of the thirties in a suburb of Zurich. After 1939, Switzerland had become an island of liberalism surrounded by a sea of fascism. Treating it as his ivory tower, Bischof devoted himself to his work as a studio photographer and portraitist, perfecting his photographic technique and training himself to be a master of seeing. Patience, care and precision were cultivated, and, as a result, a highly poetic