In the Wake of War
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Known for his postwar social documentary work, Werner Bischof was inspired to become a journalist after the ruin of World War II left him unable to be a passive observer. "Werner Bischof: Backstory" is the first major monograph on the photographer to be been published in two decades. A train of the Red Cross, transporting children to Switzerland, in Budapest, Hungary, in 1947.