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Comet Photo&#8217;s legacy of around 1m images is now kept at ETH Z&uuml;rich&#8217;s Image Archive. <strong><em>Photo Mosaic Switzerland<\/em><\/strong> features some 150 images from the Comet Photo collection, documenting the rapid changes Switzerland underwent during the 20th century&#8217;s later decades. They are arranged by topic, such as change and modernisation, industry, agriculture, the vanishing and vanished, the traditional and timeless, celebrities and glamour, or major events. An introductory essay tells the story of Comet Photo AG and its work and legacy, placing it among its competitors national and international, and looks also at Switzerland&#8217;s social and cultural history from the 1950s to the end of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Text in English and German. <\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Also available in the <em>Pictorial Worlds<\/em> series: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accdistribution.com\/uk\/store\/productdatasheet\/9783858813954\"><em>Science in Sight<\/em><\/a> ISBN 9783858813954 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accdistribution.com\/uk\/store\/productdatasheet\/9783858813596\"><em>Swissair Souvenirs<\/em><\/a> ISBN 9783858813596 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accdistribution.com\/uk\/store\/productdatasheet\/9783858813398\"><em>The World in Pocket-size Format<\/em><\/a> ISBN 9783858813398<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest volume in the &#8220;Pictorial Worlds&#8221; series, and features Swiss images from the 1950s to 1999, documenting the country&#8217;s rapid changes during this period as well as it&#8217;s social and cultural history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9691,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5485],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9690","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-photography","7":"author-by-author-georg-kreis","8":"author-edited-by-michael-gasser","9":"author-edited-by-nicole-graf","10":"publisher-scheidegger-und-spiess-ag-verlag","11":"series-pictorial-worlds","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Photo Mosaic Switzerland - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Photo Mosaic Switzerland, Pages: 192 Pages, Publish Date: 18th Nov 2015, Author: Georg Kreis, Edited by Michael Gasser, Edited by Nicole Graf, ISBN: 9783858814654. 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