Village inn in the Emmental, canton Bern, about 1935
Lunch in a mountain school in Adelboden, Bernese Oberland, 1935
Saying goodbye, mobilisation, Bern, September 2, 1939
Unemployed drivers, Winterthur, 1941
Child refugee in the Rivesaltes camp, France, 1942
Boy in an Afro-American school, New Berne, United States, 1946
Grand Canyon, 1946
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Paul Senn, who was a photojournalist for the Zürcher Illustrierte, DU and more than 40 other Swiss and foreign magazines, is renowned as a major chronicler of everyday Swiss life in the war and crisis years between 1930 and 1950. But Senn was much more: he was a pioneer of colour photography and a socially-committed reporter in Europe and the United States.
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