René Groebli
The Silent Eye: Time. People. Places
“René Groebli (1927) began as a photojournalist and became a photo-humanist.
Initially captivated by heroic events and oversized postwar figures, from the Ismailia Massacre, Egypt (1952) to international art stars such as Yves Tinguely or Le Corbusier, Groebli gradually opened up to capturing the intimacy of the visible world, from the lyricism of metropolises to the poetry of his own life, photographing his wife Rita ecstatically during their honeymoon.
His early avant-garde attraction to the formalist framing of reality through well-controlled technology evolved toward the emotional suggestion of the eternal rhythms of the visible realm, reverberated through the silent eye of the photographer.” Erwin Kessler
