biography
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| (1924– )
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| Photographer and film-maker, born in Zürich, Switzerland. A free-lance fashion and film photographer in Zurich (1943–7), he emigrated to New York (1947), where he was befriended by Alexey Brodovitch, art director at Harper's Bazaar. During 1947–51 he did free-lance fashion and advertising photography for Harper's and The New York Times among others, travelling on assignment to South America and Europe. In 1953 he collected and selected work for Steichen's exhibition, Post-War European Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art. The first European to receive a Guggenheim (1955), he spent the next two years travelling across America to capture images of daily life with his 35mm camera, publishing The Americans (1959). In 1958 he collaborated with the painter Alfred Leslie and writer Jack Kerouac to film the free-swinging Pull My Daisy. One of the founders of the New American Cinema Group, he spent most of his time making films until 1966, when he virtually gave up photography. In 1969 he moved to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. |
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