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Ernst A. Heiniger
Women at a festival, Japan, around 1956
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Good Morning, World! |
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Ernst A. Heiniger: Bahnhofplatz, Zürich, 1933
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Ernst A. Heiniger (1909–1993) belonged to the avant-garde of the Swiss "New Photography" movement in the 1930s. A photo retoucher by trade, he taught himself the art of photography autodidactically. He quickly developed a keen sense for contemporary and modern aesthetics and soon became one of the first photographers to be admitted to the Swiss Werkbund (SWB). After this initial spark to his career, Heiniger constantly took on new challenges and continued to do pioneering work.
In 1936 he created Puszta-Pferde ("Horses in Hungary"), one of the first modern photobooks in Switzerland. He worked with well-known graphic artists such as Heiri Steiner, Herbert Matter and Josef Müller-Brockmann and created innovative designs by combining photography and graphic design, an entirely novel concept at the time. In the 1950s, Heiniger travelled the world as a documentary filmmaker for Walt Disney – two of his short films were awarded an Oscar. He later created Switzerland’s first 360 degree film for Expo 64 in Lausanne. |
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| Ernst A. Heiniger: Grey and Brown, Puszta (Hungary), 1936 © Fotostiftung Schweiz |
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| Even though Ernst A. Heiniger’s visual worlds were admired by a broad public in his day, his name is still largely absent from the canon of Swiss photographic history. In 1986, he left Switzerland determined never to return and lived in Los Angeles until his death in 1993. Since then, the Fotostiftung Schweiz has sought to return his photographic estate to Switzerland – which it finally accomplished in 2014. The exploration and processing of his archive provide the basis for the first comprehensive retrospective of this creative visual designer. |
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| Ernst A. Heiniger: Self-portrait, around 1950 © Fotostiftung Schweiz |
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| The exhibition Ernst A. Heiniger – Good Morning, World!" shows object and nature photographs, photobooks, posters, films, making-of pictures and documentaries that situate his work within the history of photography. His 360 degree film Rund um Rad und Schiene ("Magic of the Rails") – the SBB’s attraction at Expo 64 in Lausanne – has been recreated as an all-around projection. Ernst A. Heiniger’s diverse photographic and cinematic oeuvre was always at the cutting edge of technology and oscillates between cool perfection and sensual closeness to nature. |
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| Ernst A. Heiniger: Water drop, 1943 © Fotostiftung Schweiz |
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