ArtistsRené Burri
René Burri

René Burri

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The Photo Essay
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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Edward Steichen Photography Center
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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The Photographer's Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Photographs for Collectors
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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René Burri was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist whose color and black-and-white work documented postwar politics, architecture, and urban life across Latin America, Asia, and Europe from the 1950s onward. He photographed pivotal moments in Cold War history and the built environment with a formal precision that balanced journalistic urgency with compositional rigor. His archive spans decades of assignment work for major international publications and remains a significant record of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Fidel Castro speaking at the Teatro Chaplin, Havana (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
Fidel Castro speaking at the Teatro Chaplin, Havana (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
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