There was to be no peace after the war. The atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflicts in Indochina and Korea, the partition of India and Pakistan: the Cold War.
Once more Werner Bischof traveled to France, Italy, and Great Britain; then he headed east, to Asia. It was to be his most fruitful period as a photographer.
In India, where he was confronted by hunger and poverty, Bischof’s great campaign for humanity took on a new dimension. He was supposed to be a war correspondent, a contradiction he found painful. What he wanted was to get to know individuals, and this was to become his mission, in Korea and Indochina as well.