PHOTOGRAPHER

Werner Bischof

1916 - 1954

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Werner Bischof (26 April 1916 – 16 May 1954) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner Bischof has received more than 56,192 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Bischof is the 78th most popular photographer (down from 66th in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 323rd in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Photographer.

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  • 50.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Werner Bischof ranks 78 out of 148. Before him are Cornell Capa, Gisèle Freund, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Guy Bourdin, Karl Blossfeldt, and Paolo Monti. After him are Weegee, René Burri, Lothar Wolleh, William Eggleston, Marc Riboud, and Alexandre Michon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Werner Bischof ranks 154. Before him are Jack Arnold, Arie van Vliet, Evelyn Keyes, Paul Halmos, Dom Mintoff, and Anton Diffring. After him are Antonio Buero Vallejo, Svend Asmussen, Jenő Fock, Franco Fabrizi, Torsten Hägerstrand, and George Sidney. Among people deceased in 1954, Werner Bischof ranks 93. Before him are Vilhelm Buhl, Mikhail Prishvin, Agus Salim, Franz Josef Popp, Theodore Lyman IV, and William Hoyt. After him are Jacques Mieses, Zofia Nałkowska, Tang Enbo, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Pyotr Leshchenko, and Ellen Thesleff.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Werner Bischof ranks 387 out of 1,015. Before him are Philippe Jaccottet (1925), Oswald Heer (1809), Emil Frey (1838), Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (1921), Didier Queloz (1966), and Alfred Newton (1829). After him are Jules Gilliéron (1854), René Burri (1933), Samuel Schmid (1947), Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice (1972), Henry, Duke of Parma (1873), and Robert Pinget (1919).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Switzerland

Among photographers born in Switzerland, Werner Bischof ranks 1. After him are René Burri (1933), and Gaudenzio Marconi (1841).

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