Werner Bischof Silk drying. Kyoto, Japan. 1951.
“Yesterday, a glorious autumn day, I took a taxi to the emperor’s old country seat.
On the way I found the silk washers…
Washing long streamers of coloured sil
(...) k in the river and hanging them out to dry on tall bamboo poles…
Can you imagine what a wonderful sight that is?
All the colored streamers swelling and swishing in the wind, wondrous ...
Naturally I couldn’t just drive past, and spent an hour there.”
– Werner Bischof, in a letter to his wife Rosellina (1951) © Werner Bischof | Magnum Photos
