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Rene Burri 

René Burri’s photographs have written history: his work is a mirror of politics and society, of turning points, triumphs and crises over the course of half a century. Whether it was the thirteen-year-old Burri’s portrait of Winston Churchill or his later portrayals of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Anwar as-Sadat or Muammar al-Gaddafi, all have traveled the world and lodged themselves in the collective consciousness. Removed from sensationalism yet no less striking are Burri’s images of the theater of war, of people suffering in poverty and calamity. And as if to hold such horrors in... 

Rene Burri 1956

ITALY. 1956. Sicily. Town of Leonforte. 

Rene Burri 1957

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1957. Interbau. International architecture... 

Rene Burri 1993

Havana. Plaza José Marti (named after the Cuban national hero... 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Rio De Janeiro. 1960. The Ministry of Health building... 

Rene Burri 1958

EGYPT. Cairo. View from the the window of the "Hotel Windsor".... 

Rene Burri 1960

ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires. 1960. Calle Florida. Newspaper seller.... 

Rene Burri 1964

West Berlin. Yorkstrasse. 

Rene Burri 1959

LE CORBUSIER, painter, urbanist & architect. 1959. 

Rene Burri 1959

EGYPT. Town of Aswan. 1959. Burial of AGA KHAN III, leader of... 

Rene Burri 1955

CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Bratislavia.1955. Watching a soccer game. 

Rene Burri 1958

BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro. 1958. Playing altinho on Ipanema beach.... 

Rene Burri 1958

BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro. Copacabana beach. 1958. 

Rene Burri 1963

PAKISTAN. Gulf of Bengal. Near the Burman border. 1963. 

Rene Burri 1963

South Vietnamese boys watching U.S. Army helicopter take off.... 

Rene Burri 1963

CUBA. La Havane. Malecon. 1963. 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia.1960. 

Rene Burri 1970

SWITZERLAND. Zürich. Knie Circus. 1970. 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia.1960. 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia.1960. 

Rene Burri 1959

FRANCE. Paris. 16th. 24, rue Nungesser-et-Coli. LE CORBUSIER... 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia. 1960. Worker from Nordeste shows his family... 

Rene Burri 1961

JAPAN. Kyoto. 1961.
Sodo priests on procession. Before taking... 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia. 1960. The National Congress building by Oscar... 

Rene Burri 1961

Seoul.

Rene Burri 1961

Nigata (West coast). Kites being painted at a kite festival.... 

Rene Burri 1963

Havana. Old quarters. A militia on guard outside a Government... 

Rene Burri 1971

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1971.
Magazine seller. 

Rene Burri 1971

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1971. 

Rene Burri 1959

WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1959. The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche... 

Rene Burri 1978

USA. Florida. 1978. Cape Canaveral. Space shuttle Columbia launching... 

Rene Burri 1967

June 8th, 1967. Some of the fiercest fighting in Sinai occurred... 

Rene Burri 1982

LEBANON. Beirut. Civil War. 1982. 

Rene Burri 1966

USA. Rank Xerox. 1966. 

Rene Burri 1967

ISRAEL. June 8th, 1967. Some of the fiercest fighting in Sinai... 

Rene Burri 1966

USA. FLORIDA. 1966. 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia.1960. 

Rene Burri 1965

Schoolchildren during early morning exercise before classes start.... 

Rene Burri 1955

FRANCE. Notre-Dame du Haut. 1955. Windows where painted glass... 

Rene Burri 1969

MEXICO. Mexico City. Queretaro Highway. 1969. The Towers of Satellite... 

Rene Burri 1979

USA. California. La Jolla. Salk Institute of Biological Studies.... 

Rene Burri 1979

The Pampa. Gauchos at work. 

Rene Burri 1966

BRAZIL. Salvador de Bahia. 1966. 

Rene Burri 1961

WEST GERMANY. Cologne. 1961. Café. 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia. 1960. 

Rene Burri 1961

SOUTH KOREA. 1961. Tae Song Dong. Women entertaining GIs. 

Rene Burri 1974

EGYPT. El Kantara. Army parade for Egyptian President Anwar El... 

Rene Burri 1966

USA. Amagansett, Long Island. 1966. 

Rene Burri 1958

Heliopolis. Training at a military school.

Rene Burri 1958

SOUTH AMERCIA. 1958. Altiplano. 

Rene Burri 1984

FRENCH GUYANA. Kourou. 1984. 

Rene Burri 1959

Spring fantasia.

Rene Burri 1958

PERU 1958. Village of Ichu, near the Lake Titicaca.
Bull fighting.... 

Rene Burri 1958

ARGENTINA. 1958. Estancia Maranita. 500 kms far from Buenos Aires.... 

Rene Burri 1958

ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires. Rio de la Plata. 1958. 

Rene Burri 1963

Havana. Avenida Italia. 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia.1960. 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia.1960. 

Rene Burri 1960

BRAZIL. Brasilia.1960. 

Rene Burri 1980

Akihiro MARUYAMA, transvestite with his driver in their Rolls... 

Rene Burri 1960

ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires. 1960. 
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