Word: bischof
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...archive, study center, seminars, master classes, lectures. It is a culmination of years of effort by Capa to get museum exposure for such doyens of the document as Lewis Hine and Andre Kertesz, together with Capa's contemporaries and friends, some prematurely dead: David Seymour Dan Weiner, Werner Bischof, and Capa's brother Robert, who died in Indochina in 1954. Their work forms one of the center's inaugural shows, Classics of Documentary Photography"; another floor is given to the equally classic results of Henri Cartier-Bresson's two visits to Russia...
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...
...their priests and pastors, have been called a bulwark against Nazi extremism. To win the votes of these good folk by unctuous conciliation last week was not the strategy of "My Leader." After more than a year of hesitant bickering, German Protestants suddenly felt the whip of Reichs bischof Ludwig Müller, a square-headed, ruthless, onetime army chaplain picked by Catholic Hitler to be their Evangelical Shepherd...
Riding the Synod roughshod, Reichs-bischof Müller demanded that it abdicate its legislative powers, vesting them in his Church Cabinet and compelling all pastors to take, on pain of expulsion from their pastorates, this oath: "I swear before God, holy and omnipotent, that I will be true and obedient to the leader of the German people and the German State, Adolf Hitler, and that I will offer every sacrifice and service for the good of the German people. Furthermore that I will perform my duties as pastor in accord with the instructions issued by the German Evangelical Church...