Fine Print: Photogram. Zurich, Switzerland, 1941 Signed but his roundtable of disciples

but his roundtable of disciples would often act as vessels for his celebrity—there was always a camera

Peggy Guggenheim

‘A View of a Room’

a fuel used to make molten iron

But LIFE crammed it into 12 pages to coincide with Schweitzer’s belated acceptance of his Nobel Peace Prize

Fine Print: Photogram. Zurich, Switzerland, 1941 Signed but his roundtable of disciplesWerner Bischof set up his studio near the end of the 1930s in a suburb of Zurich. After 1939, Switzerland had become an island of liberalism surrounded by a sea of fascism. Treating it as his ivory tower, Bischof devoted himself to his work as a studio photographer and portraitist, perfecting his photographic technique and training himself to be a master of seeing. Patience, care and precision were cultivated, and, as a result, a highly poetic