About the Author

Ernst Scheidegger, born in 1923, was a founder member of Magnum in Paris, and later a teacher at the renowned College for Design in Ulm (Germany). For more than twenty years he was picture editor of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung. At the same time he ran an art gallery and a publishing house, now Scheidegger & Spiess Publishers. He has also made film portraits of artists.