Switzerland Art Harald Szeemann, 1961 (b/w photo)

A picture dated April 1961 shows the young Swiss curator, critic and historian Harald Szeemann in Berne, Switzerland. Szeemann died on Friday, February 18, 2005, at the age of 71 because of a lung afflicton. For over forty years Szeemann has been an “exhibition producer”, as he likes to call himself; he was director of the Kunsthalle Bern from 1961 to 1969, director of Documenta 5 in Kassel, and director of the 48th and 49th editions of the Venice Biennale. He has become a symbol of the independent exhibition curator, and some of his shows are reference points in the history of twentieth-century art.