Peter Gasser (photographer)

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Peter Gasser (born June 8, 1947 in Zeiningen ) is a Swiss photographer .

The trained bricklayer Peter Gasser worked as a construction manager as a young man . He was self-taught to be a photographer and maintained close contacts with Ansel Adams . Gasser exhibited at home and abroad and received a federal grant in 1984 . He is known for his illustrated books such as B. Venezia .

literature

  • La Collezione di fotografia svizzera della Banca del Gottardo - The Gotthard Bank's Swiss Photography Collection. Galleria Gottardo, Lugano 1995.
  • Michèle Auer: Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos jours. Vol. 1, A-K. Camera obscura, Hermance, 1985, ISBN 2-903671-04-4 .
  • Swiss Foundation for Photography (ed.): Photography in Switzerland from 1840 to today. Benteli, Bern 1992.
  • Georg Sütterlin : Gasser, Peter. In: Swiss Photo Foundation : Lexicon Photography. 2011. (Online)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Portrait of Peter Gasser in the online encyclopedia fotoCH of the Office for Photography History Bern, accessed on September 26, 2014.