Jean Mohr

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Jean Mohr (born September 13, 1925 as Hans Adolf Mohr in Geneva ; † November 3, 2018 there ) was a Swiss documentary photographer and an important representative of humanitarian photography . Since 1949 he has photographed for the most important humanitarian organizations in the world such as UNHCR , ICRC , UNRWA , WHO and the ILO / ILO .

Life

Jean Mohr grew up with five siblings in Geneva. His father, who could translate 16 languages, worked for the International Labor Organization and the ICRC. His German parents emigrated to Switzerland in 1919. In response to National Socialism , they applied for Swiss citizenship , which the family received in 1939.

Mohr studied at the University of Geneva Economics and graduated with a licentiate from. In 1949/1950 he worked as an ICRC delegate in Palestine . In 1951 he studied painting at the Académie Julian in Paris. His first work as a photographer appeared in 1952 and his first publications in 1955. From 1956 to 1978 he worked on behalf of international organizations (ILO, ICRC, UNHCR, JDC , WHO).

He had been married since 1956 and had two sons.

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Mohr's reports were the result of decades of experience as an employee of humanitarian organizations with the tragedies of civilians who got into armed conflicts. It did not show the war but its consequences, the problems of the victims of conflict, the refugees weakened by the war and communities that are still exposed to persistent threats. He gave the victims of the conflict a face so that the viewer can identify with them, so he did not take any pictures that put them off. He sketched the path of displacement, the precarious environment of the refugee camps and the refugees' attempts to adapt to a situation with an unforeseeable end. Mohr's work comprises 26 photo books, five with texts by John Berger and one with texts by Edward Said . His main works are his long-term documentation in six volumes with John Berger and his book Side by Side or Face to Face includes a 50-year retrospective of his photographs on Palestinian refugees and was published in collaboration with the ICRC and the Red Cross Museum in Geneva.

The Jean Mohr photo archive was donated to the Musée de l'Elysée by the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation. The Association for the Preservation of Switzerland's Audiovisual Cultural Property (Memoriav) helped make it accessible.

Awards

  • 1964 as one of the 50 most important Swiss contemporary artists
  • 1978 Price of Photokina , Cologne, as one photographer at the steadiest to human rights has earned
  • 1984 Prize for contemporary photography from the city of Lausanne for his exhibition C'était demain
  • 1988 Prize for Fine Arts of the City of Geneva

Exhibitions

Over 80 national and international exhibitions were dedicated to his work between 1961 and 2013:

  • 1978 Photokina, Cologne: work and leisure / leisure .
  • 1985 Musée Rath , Geneva: L'autre mémoire .
  • 1992 Musée d'Elysée, Lausanne: Jean Mohr retrospective .
  • 2003 Traveling exhibition in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Gaza, Geneva, Kiev, Moscow, Luxembourg, London: side by side or face to face. 50 years of photographs by Jean Mohr in Israel and Palestine.
  • 2014 National Museum Zurich: War from the Victims' Perspective - Photographs by Jean Mohr

Publications

  • with Bernard Gavoty (text): Ernest Ansermet . Kister, Geneva 1961
  • with John Berger (text): A Fortunate Man. The Story of a Country Doctor . 1967
  • with John Berger: Story of a Country Doctor. Fischer Taschenbuch 1998/2001, ISBN 3-596-14594-5
  • A Seventh Man. Experience of migrant workers in Europe . 1976
  • Migrant workers. Experiences, pictures, analyzes . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-499-16946-0
  • with John Berger: Another Way of Telling . 1981
  • with John Berger: Another way of telling. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982/2000, ISBN 3-596-14595-3
  • with Edward Said: After the Last Sky - Palestinian Lives . 1986
  • 100 images pour la liberté de la presse, images for the freedom of the press, immagini per la libertà di stampa . Labor et fides, Geneva 2010, ISBN 978-2-8309-1399-6

literature

  • War from the victims' point of view - photographs by Jean Mohr . Brochure for the exhibition at the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne in collaboration with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs from 23 August to 26 October 2014.
  • Daniel Girardin: Mohr, Jean. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jan Hartman: The Photographer Geneva Jean Mohr Died. (No longer available online.) The Siver Telegram, November 4, 2018, archived from the original on November 6, 2018 . ; Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sivtelegram.media
  2. ^ Jean Mohr, disparition d'un humaniste , Le Temps, November 4, 2018
  3. ↑ Zeit questions from September 23, 2014: Interview with Jean Mohr - A good contact with people in extremely difficult living conditions
  4. ↑ War from the Victims' Point of View - Photographs by Jean Mohr. Brochure for the exhibition at the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne in collaboration with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs from 23 August to 26 October 2014
  5. ^ Memoriav: Jean Mohr - to the inventory
personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohr, Hans Adolf (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 2018
Place of death Geneva