Binia Bill, Hands in Net Gloves, 1930s © jakob bill / Swiss Photo Foundation
Binia Bill, self-portrait, 1930s © jakob bill / Swiss Photo Foundation
Dear customers
Binia Bill (1904-1988) was an ambitious photographer. She was one of the few women in Switzerland who worked professionally and artistically with the camera in the first half of the 20th century.
Originally trained as a concert cellist in Paris, she attended Lucia Moholy's photography class at the Itten School in Berlin in 1930. Back in Zurich, she worked as a freelance photographer before marrying the architect and artist Max Bill in 1931. Together they designed advertising projects; Binia Bill produced the images, and her husband designed the typography and layout.
Her photographic work is characterized by a clear visual language. Binia Bill combined her interest in perspectives and surfaces, in the play of light and shadow, with a unique sensitivity that shaped her view of objects, plants, animals, and people. This testifies to her extraordinary creativity and establishes her as an important place in the history of photography.
The Swiss Photo Foundation is dedicating the exhibition "Binia Bill - Pictures and Fragments" to her, on view until Saturday, January 26.
Kind regards
Stefania Samadelli and the paradis collections team
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