René Burri
René Burri ( born April 9, 1933, Zurich ) is a Swiss photographer.
Life
His first photo of a famous person has made René Burri at the age of 13 years in Zurich by Winston Churchill. For photographers train he settled in 1950 at the School of Applied Arts in Zurich (now Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK), including Hans Finsler, Alfred Willi husband and Johannes Itten. In addition to image- journalistic work, he also made documentaries and was temporarily working as a camera assistant. After 1956 he worked around the world as a photojournalist.
His first image used to print reports in Swiss magazines such as You and Camera. With its international activities in various genres of photojournalism his image more and more reports were published in internationally renowned magazines such as Look, Paris Match, Life, Stern and GEO.
1960 René Burri went public with a sensational reportage and exhibition Germans. Through its "neutrality" as a Swiss, he had the opportunity to take pictures both in the GDR and in West Germany and so the two sides of the divided Germany represent a uniform neutral and unbiased perspective. He processed this material later in a book ( first edition 1962), which reprints it up in the 1990s to recent photos, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, added. This is probably succeeded him as the only attempt, a valid picture of Germany before and after the Wall went to show and before and after the Fall.
He became especially known for 1963 smoking through his paintings of the Cuban cigar industry minister Ernesto Che Guevara. Other well-known personalities, which he has portrayed, are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Tinguely and Le Corbusier. René Burri considered as people photographer that wants to say that he is always in his pictures the people at the center and always shows the human side.
Since 1959, Burri is a member of the famous Magnum photo agency whose corresponding member he had become by the acquaintance with Werner Bischof in 1956. In 1988 he became art director of the Swiss magazine. In 2011 he was awarded the Swiss Press Photo Lifetime Achievement Award for his life's work.
Burri is married to his second wife Clotilde Blanc, with whom he has ( born 1994), a son. They live in Paris. His first wife Rosellina ( widow of photographer Werner Bischof ), with the Burri has two children, died in 1986.
Works
- One World. Photographs and collages from 1950 to 1983. Benteli, Bern 1984, ISBN 3-7165-0442-4.
- An American Dream: photographs from the world of NASA and the Pentagon. Greno Verlag, Nördlingen, 1986, ISBN 3-89190-742-7.
- 77 Strange Sensations. Story by Barry Gifford. Edition Dino Simonett, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-9521375-3-7.
- The Germans. Photographs from 1957 to 1997. With poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. 3rd enlarged edition. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich, 1999, ISBN 3-88814-988-6.
- Luis Barragán. Phaidon, London 2000, ISBN 0-7148-9082-0.
- Photographs. (Text by Hans -Michael Koetzle ). Ed. Phaidon, Berlin 2004, ISBN 0-7148-9385-4.
- Blackout New York: November 9, 1965 Moser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812344-3-5. .
- Edited by Arthur Rüegg: Brasilia / René Burri. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85881-307-7.