Photographing Peace

[Stefan Wilde]

A few weeks ago I was in the Zürich Museum of Design (Museum für Gestaltung) to see a retrospective of Oliviero Toscani. He won fame through his very controversial work for Benetton and at Andy Warhol's factory before that. If you get the chance to see it, I recommend it!

After that, I read a recent interview with Toscani in which he was asked about his disabilitating disease. He was very upset with that and has not at all made peace with it.

When asked what he had missed out on he said he would have wanted to do a photography project about peace. But he doubted it could be done at all - peace seemed to be impossible to capture in pictures to him.

I wonder if he is right... Dear Forum, how would you go about it? Have you got pictures of peace to share?

Cheers, Stefan

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Good question. Now the ones I thought were peaceful are under question. But here's a small few that spring to mind:

1. Wife sleeping

2. Sunday Morning

3. The Admirals

 

[Gianluca Drago]

@Stefan Wilde, I visited the The Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich a few years ago—it was the planned destination for our summer holiday with my family. I had checked the opening hours and everything online, but when we got there, the museum was closed long-term. No big deal. I haven’t read the interview with Oliviero Toscani (do you have a link?), so I’m asking you—was he talking about *peace* or *Peace*?

 

[Stefan Wilde]

«Eines Morgens bin ich aufgewacht, und nichts ging mehr»: Star-Fotograf Oliviero Toscani ist unheilbar krank

Oliviero Toscani hat für Benetton die provokanteste Fotokampagne in der Geschichte der Werbung lanciert. Im Interview verteidigt er sein Werk, hadert mit seiner Gesundheit und schwärmt von Zürich.

www.tagesanzeiger.ch

Unfortunately in German, so I can't be certain if he meant *peace* or *Peace*..

 

[Stefan Wilde]

Good question. Now the ones I thought were peaceful are under question. But here's a small few that spring to mind:

1. Wife sleeping

2. Sunday Morning

3. The Admirals

These do convey a feeling of peace to me, at least.

 

[Peter Roberts]

I'm not religious but the attic chapel of Talbot House in Poperinge, Belgium is one of the most peaceful places I know of.



The history of Talbot House and its significance during WW1 can be found here

Every Man's Club

Discover a museum where the past lives on combined with a guesthouse in an authentic British soldiers' club, right in the historical heart of Flanders…

www.talbothouse.be