This page gathers photographers connected to Switzerland and traces how each links to a period and movement in the history of photography.
Robert Frank is the photographer who reread postwar America's roads, cars, flags, diners, and scenes of racial segregation through grain, unstable composition, and precise …
Born in Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland, in 1924, Sabine Weiss trained in photography at Studio Boissonnas in Geneva, received her professional qualification in 1945, and opened a …
Born in Zurich in 1916, Werner Bischof studied photography with Hans Finsler at the Kunstgewerbeschule, where he worked across still life, advertising, fashion, and magazine …
Claudia Andujar (born 1931) is a photographer and activist born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. After living in the United States, she moved to Brazil in 1955 and began a lasting …
Artist and photographer with Mexican background, trained in Zurich and later working in Geneva and internationally.*1*2*3 Known for working with photographs, replicas, copies …
Swiss/German photographer who has lived and worked across Zürich, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Austin.*1*2 Known for editorial, celebrity, and autobiographical …
Shirana Shahbazi is an Iranian-born, Zurich-based photographer whose work has expanded from the everyday scenes of Tehran in Goftare Nik / Good Words to portraiture, still life …
Stefan Burger works with discounted hardware-store materials, oddly purposeless devices, plants, traces of the darkroom, and gold-colored still lifes to examine the preparation …
collectif_fact is a Swiss artist collective using photography, video, 3D scanning, and architectural modeling to test how urban space, media images, and fiction condition …
Swiss artist born in 1962, working with photography, video, installation, and research-based narrative forms. His projects often engage borders, migration, conflict, and the …
Swiss artist, photographer, editor, and lecturer born in 1964; trained in documentary photography at ICP in New York in 1994 before moving into long-term conceptual projects. He …
Swiss artist born in 1963, working across photography, sculpture, text, installation, and conceptual formats. His practice often addresses language, displacement, labor, and the …
Fabian Marti is a Swiss artist whose work moves across scanners, scratched negatives, photograms, appropriated images, ceramics, video, and installation. Dust and scratches on …
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