Word: bischof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FROM INCAS TO INDIOS, by Werner Bischof, Robert Frank and Pierre Verger (77 pp.; Universe; $ 10), and THE ANDES, by Claude Arthaud and François Hébert-Stevens (185 pp.; Vanguard; $12.50), contain some of the year's best photographs. Peru and the Andes generally run to pure drama, in nature as in man. A child, an old woman, a street scene become as majestic in the work of these cameramen as the towering mountains...
...Rock (coat), he preaches to them in the blunt Gospel language of a Reformation patriarch. A stiffly mannered figure with a face made more impressive by a natural tonsure, small sharp eyes and a heavy, bristling goatee, he is also clothed in the dignity which Prussians think a Herr Bischof ought to have...