Monteverdi
The golden age of Swiss fast cars.
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Thomas Kern was born in Switzerland in 1965. Trained as a photographer in Zürich, he started working as a photojournalist in 1989. He was a founder of the Swiss photographers agency Lookat Photos in 1990. Thomas Kern has won twice a World Press Award and has been awarded several Swiss national scholarships. His work has been widely exhibited and it is represented in various collections.
Cars designed by Peter Monteverdi, the son of an Italian immigrant, made Swiss automobile industry history. Sports cars, limousines and off-roaders were produced at his factory at Binnigen, near Basel until 1982. Many vehicles are housed in a museum, and are the pride and joy of those who work there, as long-time employee Paul Berger explains. (Luigi Jorio and Thomas Kern, swissinfo.ch)
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