Fine Print: Courtyard of the Meiji shrine, Tokyo, Japan, 1951 Paris capturing how this man and

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In 1981 he shot what is now considered an iconic portrait of Margaret Thatcher at the Conservative party conference in Blackpool

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Fine Print: Courtyard of the Meiji shrine, Tokyo, Japan, 1951 Paris capturing how this man andWerner Bischof was given the assignment of photographing the war in Korea in 1951. The job took him through Japan, a country that won his heart. Bischof stayed in Japan for almost a year, discovering the countrys beauty and purity of design and ritual that must have reminded him of his early studio days. His time in Japan undoubtedly marks a high point in Bischofs oeuvre. The subject matter and the photographers sensitive, considered approach