Switzerland Photographers

This country page gathers photographers connected to Switzerland and traces how their work relates to Conceptual Art, American Photography, and Documentary within the history of photography. It is designed as a country-based entry point, linking individual photographers to eras, movements, and nearby figures rather than treating national photography as a closed category.

Basic facts
CountrySwitzerland
Photographers6

Photographers

🇨🇭CH1924–2019
Robert Frank
Postwar American Photography
American PhotographyDocumentary+1

Robert Frank was born into a Swiss Jewish family in Zurich and moved to New York in 1947, where he initially found work in fashion photography for Harper's Bazaar.

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Erik Steinbrecher
Conceptual Art
Conceptual Art

German artist born in 1963, working across photography, sculpture, text, installation, and conceptual formats.

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Jules Spinatsch
Conceptual Art
Conceptual Art

Swiss artist, photographer, editor, and lecturer born in 1964; trained in documentary photography at ICP in New York in 1994 before moving into long-term conceptual projects.

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Marco Poloni
Conceptual Art
Conceptual Art

Swiss artist born in 1962, working with photography, video, installation, and research-based narrative forms.

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Stefan Burger
Conceptual Art
Conceptual Art

German-born Swiss-based artist born in 1977, trained in photography in Zurich and active across photography, sculpture, installation, and action.

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collectif_fact
Conceptual Art
Conceptual Art

collectif_fact is a Swiss artist collective using photography, video, 3D scanning, and architectural modeling to test how urban space, media images, and fiction condition perception.

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