Muller

V) what?
2014
Photosuisse
by Christian Eggenberger and Lars Müller Switzerland has world-class photographers in
Robert Frank, Werner Bischof and René Burri. Photosuisse is now taking a look at contemporary Swiss
photography, which enjoys an international reputation with names like Thomas Flechtner, Annelies
Strba, Balthasar Burkhard, Luc Chessex and Georg Gerster. Photosuisse is a “musée imaginaire” of
current Swiss photography, putting forward some quite different viewpoints between the covers of
a book. However diverse the positions presented might be, they share the specific precision of the
photographic eye. Photosuisse sees itself as a photographic reader. It provides detailed information
about 28 viewpoints, and an essay investigates whether there is a specifically Swiss way of shooting the
world. The book is accompanied by two DVDs with film portraits of the 28 artists. These were produced
by Swiss Television (SRG SSR idée suisse) as the book’s editor.
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