ArtistsRené Burri
René Burri

René Burri

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WA-00026455
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None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
54
Works in Collection
80
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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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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About

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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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Artworks (54)

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Artwork sources (3)

54 published of 70 catalogued · 56 with image
  • Art Institute Chicago
    32 published32 img
  • MoMA
    16 publishedof 32 catalogued24 img
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    6 published

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6 entries · 1 sources
  • Amalia Coal Mine, Essen
    1961 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, West Berlin
    1959 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • Portrait of Pablo Picasso Smoking, France
    1952 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • Sadat Reopens the Suez Canal: Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Guerilla Leader Yasser Arafat Reviewing the Egyptian Army Units, Egypt
    1974 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • Dwight Eisenhower giving a speech during a visit to Germany
    1959 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
    1969 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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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
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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