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1916 (Zurich) - 1954 (Peru) He wanted to be a painter in 1932-1936 he studied at the academy of fine arts in Zurich and at the same time learnt photography from Hans Finsler. In 1936 he opened a photo and advertising studio in Zurich and specialized in fashion and advertising photography. From 1939 he worked as a freelance as the curator of Swiss National Exhibition.
He moved to Paris before the war but spent the wartime in Switzerland. He was the co-editor of Du. He has been taking colour photographs since 1944. In 1945 he made his series entitled Refugees on the Italian partisans interned to Ticino.
In 1946 he travelled throughout the ruined Europe with Emil Shulthess. He worked for the war relief organization Don Suisse.
In 1948 he reported the winter Olympic Games from St. Moritz for Life. In 1949 he moved to London and worked for The Observer and the Picture Post. He was the sixth member of Magnum. In 1951-52 commissioned by Life he travelled to India for several times, photographed the famine in Bihar, and visited Himalaya, Hong Kong, Japan. He was the war correspondence of Paris Match in Indochine and photographed the ceremony of crowning Elizabeth II for Life. He travelled in America several times, in 1954 he documented women's life in South-America. He accompanied Ali de Szepessy to his geological research expedition in Amazonia. He was killed in a road accident in the Andes. |
