Peter gasser biography

EXIBITIONS

1984   Gallery zur Stockeregg, Zürich, Switzerland

            ART, Basel, Switzerland

           Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland

1985   Light Gallery, Seattle, USA

            ART Basel, Switzerland

           Kunsthaus  Zürich, Switzerland

           Gallery zur Stockeregg, Zürich, Switzerland

1986  Equivalent Gallery, Seattle, USA

           Gallery Ursula Ehrhardt, Nürnberg, Germany

1987  Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA

           Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

           Gallery zur Stockeregg, Zürich, Switzerland

1988  Wach Gallery, Avon Lake, Ohio, USA

           Lichtbild Gallery, Ingolstadt, Germany

           Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland

1989  Gallery zur Stockergegg, Zürich, Switzerland

           Fotoforum Kappeln, Germany

           Fotoforum Bremen, Germany

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Every now and then, I'm confronted with photographic work of such superlative quality that my jaw literally drops. Peter Gasser's photography is such work.

Peter Gasser is a Swiss photographer, and his biography as penned by Professor Helmut Gernsheim on his website reveals his affinity for precision work. While Professor Gernsheim commends Gasser's landscape work, comparing it to that of Ansel Adams, Brett Weston and Paul Caponigro, it is his ethno-photography that left me speechless.

Peter Gasser has exhibited his work in European and United States galleries, and is the recipient of a number of awards including the official recognition from the Swiss Confederation. His photographs are at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Art institute of Chicago, International Museum of Photography, Rochester; Center for Creative Photography, Arizona and others.

While all of his galleries are collectors' items, it's his images of the African

History

How two people helped bring the future to the Napa Valley

Born at home in Napa in 1905, Pete Gasser was one of six children of Swiss immigrants Henry Gasser and Mary Crotta, who had come to the United States in the 1880’s and 90’s. Like most of their neighbors, the Gassers were farmers, and for many years his father was the head dairyman at Napa State Hospital. At their ranch in Coombsville, the family had their own prune orchard, raised turkeys and chickens, and operated a dairy with goats and cows. The Gasser dairy was known for neatness and modern methods of operation, and working in it throughout his childhood taught the young Peter plenty about hard work. In high school, he was annoyed when other boys teased him about his rustic clothes, and left after ninth grade, but he soon went on to earn a banking certificate in San Francisco. He began working for the Bank of Italy (which was to become the Bank of America) in 1925.

Pete’s new job brought him into contact with bankers, local business owners, and other men of influence and power. It also allowed him to dre

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