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The story
Drawn from research/photographs/photo-0027.md — the canonical research note. Provenance and primary-source documentation live there; this is the reader-friendly summary.
Subject and context
Per the Master Checklist, plate #30 appears in Section 3 Marriage between Wayne Miller’s plate #29 (Mexico) and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s plate #31 (France). The checklist does not describe the photograph’s subject. The Magnum page fetched this round (src-magnum-photographer-bios) gave Bischof’s dates and Andes death; it did not quote Japan-reportage material in what was returned.
Reception / analysis
Not written this round.
Perspective notes
- Curatorial (MoMA 1955): a posthumous Bischof plate placed adjacent to Miller and Cartier-Bresson in the Marriage section — along with Capa at #26 (photo-0023), making Section 3 a Magnum-heavy corner of the exhibition with two of its photographers recently lost.
- Critical / institutional: Bischof’s estate is maintained at wernerbischof.com; Magnum’s own photographer-page serves as the Tier-3 institutional reference consulted this round.
Open questions
- The specific Japanese location, subject, and date of the photograph.
- The specific date of the Japan plate — not attested in any source fetched this round; a Tier-1 Bischof catalogue raisonné or Werner Bischof Estate cross-reference would be needed.
- Whether MoMA’s permanent collection holds the print with a recorded object id.
- Whether the print is among the Clervaux Castle holdings.
- Whether the print was authorized posthumously by the Werner Bischof Estate for the exhibition or had already been printed before his death — not attested in fetched sources.
Catalog notes
Checklist #30, Section 3 Marriage. Werner Bischof, Magnum, Swiss, 18 x 12 cm. Bischof died May 16, 1954 (before the exhibition opened) in Peru; any plate dates must therefore be <=1954.
src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist