Peter Pfrunder, in collaboration with Teresa Gruber (eds.)

99 Photographs

A doomed painter on his last walk, a barefoot girl in front of a school blackboard, a charismatic politician as an advocate for the simple life: 99 Photographs presents images that touch, seduce or confuse. Since 1971 the Fotostiftung Schweiz has been collecting archives of photographers and outstanding works of photographic history. Now its 50th anniversary gives rise to a curated look at this collection – an invitation to discover the rich language of photography and to see the world through different eyes.

Well-known icons stand next to unknown trouvailles, pioneers of color photography next to Netcam photographers. The short accompanying texts point to a reality that lies behind the facts and beneath the surface. Ninety-nine times, editor Peter Pfrunder stops time to look inward and outward at once – until the invisible emerges in the visible and images turn out to be a wondrous mixture of facts and fantasies.

A doomed painter on his last walk, a barefoot girl in front of a school blackboard, a charismatic politician as an advocate for the simple life: 99 Photographs presents images that touch, seduce or confuse. Since 1971 the Fotostiftung Schweiz has been collecting archives of photographers and outstanding works of photographic history. Now its 50th anniversary gives rise to a curated look at this collection – an invitation to discover the rich language of photography and to see the world through different eyes.

Well-known icons stand next to unknown trouvailles, pioneers of color photography next to Netcam photographers. The short accompanying texts point to a reality that lies behind the facts and beneath the surface. Ninety-nine times, editor Peter Pfrunder stops time to look inward and outward at once – until the invisible emerges in the visible and images turn out to be a wondrous mixture of facts and fantasies.

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Edited by Peter Pfrunder, in collaboration with Teresa Gruber

With contributions by Madleina Deplazes, Lea Fuhrer, Teresa Gruber, Catharina Hanreich, Peter Pfrunder, Sascha Renner, Helene Rüegger, Georg Sütterlin

Design: Müller+Hess

19 × 27 cm, 7 ½ × 10 ¼ in

232 pages, 99 illustrations

hardback

2021, 978-3-03778-678-9, English
CHF 45.00

Peter Pfrunder

Peter Pfrunder (*1959) is a publicist specializing in photography and cultural history. After studying German language and literature, European popular literature and English literature in Zürich, Montpellier and Berlin, he worked as an editor and author for various newspapers. Since 1998, he has been director and curator of the Fotostiftung Schweiz. Pfrunder has published widely on Swiss photography, including “Schweizer Fotobücher 1927 bis heute - Eine andere Geschichte der Fotografie” and “Unfamiliar Familiarities—Outside Views on Switzerland“ both published by Lars Müller Publishers.