Rene Burri in Zurich, Switzerland

[nksyoon]

Rene Burri will be holding a signing session in the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich this Sunday February 19 from 13.00 onwards.

You can bring your own books or prints to be signed or buy them from the museum shop. It will be held in the foyer, so photography is allowed. It's not allowed in the exhibition area. There'll also be a guided tour at 14.00, but not by Burri.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

I wish I could be there.

Please if they exhibit 'Sao Paolo 1958' (four guys walking across a structure's roof with long shadows) please stand there and appreciate it. I've never seen an original print, but it it is so iconic.

 

[vincentbenoit]

Rene Burri will be holding a signing session in the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich this Sunday February 19 from 13.00 onwards.

Gosh... and here I am stuck on Her Majesty's crowded island. Nick, I assume you'll be going?

Vincent

 

[Robin Harrison]

Rene Burri will be holding a signing session in the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich this Sunday February 19 from 13.00 onwards.

You can bring your own books or prints to be signed or buy them from the museum shop. It will be held in the foyer, so photography is allowed. It's not allowed in the exhibition area. There'll also be a guided tour at 14.00, but not by Burri.

I am very, very jealous. Burri is probably my favourite photographer. If I thought there was anyway I could get there...

Enjoy!

 

[Robin Harrison]

I wish I could be there.

Please if they exhibit 'Sao Paolo 1958' (four guys walking across a structure's roof with long shadows) please stand there and appreciate it. I've never seen an original print, but it it is so iconic.

I saw a print of this at the end of 2003 in a gallery in London (Hakelbury, I think). Absolutely draw-droppingly good. Berrrrrilliant. Not often that a telephoto is used in such a way - the picture has a feel of space and perspective about it that wide-to-normal lenses usually do well. And that great big central divide - two stories happening, seperate but linked. As close to perfect as a photo can be, in my opinion.

 

[RML]

Burri is one of those photogs I haven't been able to check out yet. What I've seen, looks really good.

 

[thmk]

Why this weekend? :bang: Last weekend I had off...

 

[nksyoon]

Now I need to decide which M6 to use - Leica or Mamiya. The light in the foyer is reasonably good, so I'm leaning towards the Mamiya.

I am very, very jealous. Burri is probably my favourite photographer. If I thought there was anyway I could get there...

Enjoy!

Easyjet to Basel and then the train?

 

[Jamie123]

nice! i'll probably be there.

 

[Robin Harrison]

Easyjet to Basel and then the train?

When I said 'if there was anyway I could get there', it probably should have read 'if there was anyway they could change the location to London'. Reckon it would cost about £200 in travel to get there. If only I was more of a spontaneous man!

 

[RML]

200 GBP can buy you a nice Rene Burri book. 😛

 

[nksyoon]

Because I found out about this only today, I don't have time to buy the book at Amazon (£40+shipping=113 swiss francs). It costs 165 swiss francs locally!

I may get an exhibition poster for him to sign instead.