Werner Bischof. Point of View Opens at Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini in Milan

Milan's Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini presents "Werner Bischof. Point of View," a retrospective on the Swiss photographer born in Zurich in 1916 and killed in a car accident in Trujillo, Peru, in 1954. Curated by his heir Marco Bischof with Andréa Holzherr and Tania Kuhn, the show traces his career from early formal experiments — enlarged details of shells, fruit and shrubs — through the reportage that defined him. Bischof opened a fashion studio at twenty, but the outbreak of war in 1939 pushed him to abandon the atelier and document the human and material wounds of conflict, first in Italy, then in Bihar during the great famine, and later in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and South America. Admitted to Magnum Photos in 1949, he was commissioned by Life to cover the Sankt Moritz Winter Olympics. Organized in four chronological sections, the exhibition foregrounds children and adolescents as his privileged subjects, including a 1951 Tokyo image of young faces awaiting Emperor Hirohito and portraits made in a Korean prisoner-of-war camp. A final section presents color work, American views whose saturated tones echo the pop spirit of the era. Evening visits run until 22.30 with aperitivo in the cloister. On view through 18 October 2026 at Piazza Sant'Eustorgio 3.