Short Biography
Barnabás
Bosshart was born in 1947 in Herisau/AR Switzerland and lives in
Maranhão, Brazil. After completing studies in Photography at the
Photoklasse of the Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich (1963/67) he was assisting
American Fashion-Star-Photographer Bill King in London, New York City
and Paris (1967/68) and afterwards was himself a free-lance
fashion-photographer in Chelsea/London for e.g. Harper’s Bazaar,
Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Times etc. till 1975. From 1973/2004 travelling
through almost all continents as a reportage-photographer, with a focal
point on Brazil. His
most important black & white projects are in the field
of Documentary-Reportage about day-to-day Life-Events of the people of
Alcântara/MA Brazil (1981/88), South West China, Macão, Shanghai and Beijing (1989), Rio de Janeiro (1991/93), The Canton Thurgau/Switzerland
(1997/98) and since 1999 about the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão. Bosshart’s
work has been shown since 1985 in over 20 personal exhibitions in
renowned museums worldwide e.g. in Switzerland, Germany, Portugal,
China and Brazil. Book
and exhibition-catalogue-publications include e.g.: “Blimey! Another
Book About London”(1972); “Alcântara, eine brasilianische Stadt,
zwischen kolonialer Erinnerung und Raketenträumen” (1989); “Points
of Time” (1989); “La
Cina in due Tempi” (1993);
“Nord-Nordost” (1998). His
black and white fine prints are included in various collections as the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; The Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur, Switzerland; |