Magnum Editions: Beirut, Lebanon, 1991 All Prints he photographed ballerinas at the

he photographed ballerinas at the Bolshoi Ballet School (today

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the Channel Islands — of which Guernsey is the second largest — are complicated and this is reflected in this series of photographs

Magnum Editions: Beirut, Lebanon, 1991 All Prints he photographed ballerinas at theRen Burri learned how to capture aesthetically pure, artfully composed and illuminated objects in characteristically Swiss style at the Zurich School of Art and Design, where he was taught by none other than Hans Fisler, the supreme master of subtle gray tones. The artistic climate of the early 1950s was conducive to this austere style that Burri would eventually come to perfect and make his own. While known primarily for these melancholic black and