CAMERA Magazine Switzerland 1970s C.J.Bucher

CAMERA Magazine, published in Luzerne, Switzerland, represented for many years the highest quality gravure reproductions of photographs in any magazine. The golden age for this marvelous publication was from the 1960s to the early 1970s. The publisher, C.J.Bucher Company, spared no expense in producing the magazine, up until 1973 when the company was sold. Here, in no particular arrangement, are covers for the magazine from the early to mid-1970s. Coverage included giants of the field as well and emerging artists from around the world. Photos of covers from an extensive collection acquired in the 1990s. Click here for details about Camera.

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Figure #1: Greenwich Village Nudes 1951

Celebrating the seventieth anniversary of a very beautiful and rarely seen publication devoted to the female nude, Figure #1. Published in New York City, 1951 by (the) Photography Workshop located at 286 Bleecker Street (the heart of the West Village). Filled cover to cover with exceptional photographs, many "experimental" and surreal, impeccably printed in fine gravure. The photographers include Peter Basch, Fernand Fonssagrives, Philippe Halsman, Lou Jacobs, Jr., Earl Leaf, Fred Lyon, Ingeborg de Beausacq, Peter Martin, Fred Swartz, Jerry Yulsman and Alfred Gescheidt.

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