Military service during the Second World War, 1939-1945.
Lost in literature, 1940.
Clearing a damaged jeep, 1960.
Visitors from the United States, 1955.
Railway employee Johann Stocker awaiting the next train, 1940.
A voyage back in time to Leukerbad.
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Between 1940 and 1960, watchmaker and amateur photographer Arnold Zwahlen (born in 1916) immortalised the inhabitants of his local village, Leukerbad, in canton Valais. His photographs are a voyage back in time to a world that has long disappeared.
The book “Arnold Zwahlen – village photographer” is published by Benteli-Verlag (Bern and Zurich) and includes an interview with writer Maurice Chappaz.
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