Berner Blitz
2002
$208.00
CHOOSE BETWEEN A SIGNED COPY IN NEAR FINE CONDITION (1ST EDITION IN GERMAN) OR AN UNSIGNED ONE IN FINE CONDITION (1ST EDITION IN ENGLISH)
Berner Blitz by Rene Burri
About the signed copy
First edition large format hardback in near fine condition
First impression
All text is in German
Signed in paint with inscription to Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin by Rene Burri to front end page, there is also a small doodle of a camera and the date 27/6/08
Some general wear to boards
Some very slight toning to extremities of pages
Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm
About the unsigned edition
First edition large format hardback in fine condition
First impression
All text in English
No markings
Binding firm, pages clean
Artist Bio from Magnum Photos
René Burri studied at the School of Applied Arts in his native city of Zurich, Switzerland. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a documentary film-maker and began to use a Leica while doing his military service.
Burri became an associate of Magnum in 1955 and received international attention for one of his first reportages, on deaf-mute children, Touch of Music for the Deaf, published in LIFE magazine.
