Werner Bischof (April 26, 1916 – May 16, 1954) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist. In 1951, he went to India, working for Life magazine, and then to Japan and Korea. For the magazine Paris Match he worked as a war reporter in Vietnam. In 1954, he travelled through Mexico and Panama, before flying to Peru, where he embarked on a trip through the Andes to the Amazonas on May 14. On May 16, his car fell off a cliff on a mountain road in the Andes, and all three passengers were killed.
August 1951 - Okinawa Bischof covers the American Air Base on Okinawa for the international press as an assignment.
16 May 1954 - Peru Werner Bischof dies shortly after his 38th birthday in a car accident in Peña de Aguila in the Andes.
1950 - Great Britain, Italy Works in Great Britain and Italy for international magazines. Birth of son Marco in Zürich.
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