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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 52,800 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Werner Bischof is the 66th most popular photographer (down from 39th in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 264th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Photographer.

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  • 50.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Werner Bischof ranks 66 out of 105. Before him are René Burri, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Erich Salomon, Henry Peach Robinson, Berry Berenson, and Andreas Gursky. After him are Boris Mikhailov, William Klein, Herb Ritts, Imogen Cunningham, Grete Stern, and David Bailey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Werner Bischof ranks 136. Before him are Jack Arnold, Halet Çambel, Ugo Locatelli, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Bismillah Khan, and Paul Halmos. After him are Veronika Dudarova, Wan Li, Svend Asmussen, Lou Thesz, Fernando Lamas, and Penelope Fitzgerald. Among people deceased in 1954, Werner Bischof ranks 77. Before him are Friedrich Meinecke, Mikhail Prishvin, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Oswald de Andrade, Omer Nishani, and William Hoyt. After him are Édouard Le Roy, Lucien Tesnière, Émile Mâle, Pyotr Leshchenko, Franz Josef Popp, and Agus Salim.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Werner Bischof ranks 324 out of 876. Before him are Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Kurt Koch (1950), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), Hans Erni (1909), Luigi Taveri (1929), and Albert Heim (1849). After him are Murat Yakin (1974), Erhard Loretan (1959), Jean Reynier (1771), Max Abegglen (1902), Louis Niedermeyer (1802), and Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Switzerland

Among photographers born in Switzerland, Werner Bischof ranks 2. Before him are René Burri (1933). After him are Gaudenzio Marconi (1841).

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