One World
From Richard Nixon's America to Fidel Castro's Cuba, Swiss photographer René Burri's iconic images show the breadth of the photographer's work and experience
This collection of René Burri’s work gathers about 160 photographs, taken from 1950 to 1983. But it represents much more than a traditional collection: the artist here aims to describe his universe, encompassing his life experiences and they way he expressed them.
The book is peppered with the photographer’s various artistic creations, including collages and childhood drawings. As a photographer, René Burri witnessed the major events and figures of his lifetime, including Che Guevara, President Nixon, Picasso, and Pablo Casals.
"My work, my life and my artistic ambitions constitute a unity"
- René Burri
His pictures of Germany’s post-war reconstruction proved to be the genesis of a new photographic exploration that found further expression in his later work in Cuba, Egypt, China, Japan, among the many other countries Burri photographed.
