Walter Bosshard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Walter Bosshard

Swiss photographer (1892-1975)

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1892

Place of Birth: Samstagern, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 18-Nov-1975

Profession: photographer, journalist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Walter Bosshard

  • Walter Bosshard (November 8, 1892 in Samstagern, Switzerland – November 18, 1975 in Ronda, Spain) was a Swiss photographer and reporter. Bosshard's early work involved photography of Southeast Asia and China in the 1920s.
  • He was one of three foreign photographers invited to the 1929 crowning of Mohammad Nadir Shah of Afghanistan.
  • In 1930, Bosshard published a work of photographs detailing Mahatma Gandhi's private life, including photographs of the salt march.
  • In 1932, Bosshard published another work entitled Hazards of Asia's Highlands and Deserts.
  • In this he describes an expedition he undertook with two other German scientists into the south western section of the Taklamakhan desert of Xinjiang, China, in the vicinity of Khotan.
  • They were searching the area where Sir Aurel Stein had discovered traces of and artifacts from early Buddhist sites.
  • His book betrays the European attitude fairly common in that period, namely an insensitivity to local politics and culture. The expedition had entered China from Ladakh and Leh.
  • Bureaucratic difficulties eventually dogged it to the extent that Bosshard felt he could no longer work there.
  • The local bureaucracy feared that he and his companions were secretly looking for gold.
  • He does not mention the fate of his companions from whom he got separated.
  • He was forced to leave Xinjiang via Kashgar and crossed into Soviet Kirhizstan, though he managed to take some Buddhist artifacts out.
  • The book gives a reasonable account of the growing Russian influence in the area preceding the Tungan revolt.
  • He covered photography of the Second Sino-Japanese war for Life magazine.

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