“Mr. Bissinger’s photographs split the difference between high-gloss fashion photography and reportage, reflecting the rawer, more emotive style asserting itself across the arts in the postwar era. …
“As the Vietnam War heated up, however, he devoted nearly all his time to working as a draft counselor at the Greenwich Village Peace Center. Later, as a member of the War Resisters League, he crusaded for nuclear disarmament.”
Gore Vidal wrote of Karl Bissinger’s work that “there is no country without Karl Bissinger to make art of it.”
–William Grimes, New York Times, Nov. 25, 2008