Du is a magazine focused on art and culture, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded in 1941 and was often viewed as one of the leading voices on art and culture in Europe. The magazine is known for its focus on photography; prominent photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Werner Bischof and Réne Burri were contributors for the magazine. In 1941 the publishing house Conzett & Huber decided to sell the Zürcher Illustrierte and to publish a new magazine in order to promote a color print it developed which enabled the printing of multi-colored photographs in good quality. It was headquartered in Zürich, and the publishing house gave Arnold Kübler, the former editor-in-chief of the Zürcher Illustrierte, the lead over the new magazine. The content of the magazine was less important to the publishers; the first issue included several pages with colorful publicity, some of the fashion-related pages were also in color but not always based on photographic originals. In November 1941 the cover of the magazine was designed according to the main theme of the issue for the first time. and under its first Editor-in-Chief Arnold Kübler focused on colorful photo-stories. Initially the magazine had to face some criticism; some saw it as a waste of public money, others deemed the authors as failed artists who now claimed to judge but within a short period of time, Du was a respected magazine. More information...
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