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Background information
"We are invited to take a look at what is at or near the old wall and has not (yet) been cleared by the new Berlin. Some of SCHMIDT's sceneries seem like photos of excavations.
Content
These are rather brusque dispositives: individual objects or mere traces capture the viewer's eye with a raw or defenselessness, as if they participated in a protest act. But all things remain mute. As in his exhibitions and other books, Michael SCHMIDT omitted all direct explanations and instructive subtitles in '89 / 90 '. In this way, Michel SCHMIDT succeeds in questioning the historical status of the respective monument or document even more forcefully. (...)
About German photographer, Michael SCHMIDT (1945-2014)
Photo books by and about Michael SCHMIDT
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Thomas Weski, Chris Dercon
- Format
- HC with dust jacket, 22,5 x 19 x 1,5 cm., 100 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English