Born 1946 in Basel, Switzerland. Lives and works in Basel.
Christian Vogt belongs to those Swiss photographers who thoroughly shook up Swiss photography in the aftermath of 1968. Photographers, faith lost in the idea of truth in a single image, began their attempts to break through the boundaries in which journalistic reportage photography and the emotionally detached “Sachfotografie” (non-subjective photography) had become confined. They practised photography as an image medium in its own right, equipped with its own specific tools, and borrowing strategies from art and literature.
Vogt’s works are represented in international collections such as Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; Fotostiftung, Winterthur, Switzerland; Musée de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; Getty Foundation (Sam Wagstaff Collection), Los Angeles, USA; Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany.
