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Michael Schmidt

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Photographs by Michael Schmidt.

Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 140 pgs / 56 duotone. | 8/2/2000 | Not available
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Michael Schmidt: Photographs 1965–2014Michael Schmidt: Photographs 1965–2014

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Text by Ute Esklidsen, Janos Frecot, Peter Galassi, Heinz Liesbrock, Thomas Weski.

Author of now-classic photobooks such as Waffenruhe and Berlin-Wedding, Berlin-based photographer Michael Schmidt (1945-2014) was acclaimed in his lifetime for his black-and-white, documentary-style depictions of his native city. This is the first full appraisal of his work, featuring numerous images of working material such as work prints or book dummies, as well as archival material—invitation cards, posters and exhibition views. Essays by Ute Eskildsen, Janos Frecot, Peter Galassi, Heinz Liesbrock and Thomas Weski, who worked closely with Schmidt on various projects during his lifetime, complement these materials.

Schmidt was born on 6 October 1945 in East Berlin, five months after the German surrender. His family crossed to West Berlin before the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. His earliest series on Berlin, Stadtlandschaft (Urban Landscapes) (1974-75) and Berlin, Stadtbilder (Berlin, Urban Images) (1976-80), established the idiom he would pursue for the rest of his life.



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Walther König, Köln

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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 400 pgs / 235 color / 284 duotone.

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Catalog: FALL 2020 p. 99   

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Michael Schmidt: Berlin-WeddingMichael Schmidt: Berlin-Wedding

1978

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited with text by Thomas Weski. Text by Horst Bowith, Heinz Ohff.

After the reissue of German photographer Michael Schmidt’s (1945–2014) legendary photobook Waffenruhe (1987) comes a new edition of Berlin-Wedding (1978), collecting his documentary-style images of Berlin’s Wedding district.



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Walther König, Köln

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Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 120 pgs / 70 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 194   

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Michael Schmidt: WaffenruheMichael Schmidt: Waffenruhe

Published by Koenig Books.
Text by Janos Frecot, Einar Schleef, Karin Schmidt, Thomas Weski.

Waffenruhe, a now classic photobook by Michael Schmidt (1945–2014), was first published in 1987 by the Berlin-based Dirk Nishen Verlag. It quickly sold out and continues to fetch high prices on the antiquarian book market; it is reprinted here for the first time. The book is Schmidt's portrait of a still-divided Berlin: it brings together surprising combinations of high-contrast, black-and-white images to express a generation's dystopian sense of life shortly before the fall of the Wall. Schmidt evokes a world of ruptures and absences that eschews any comprehensive perspective.

The images combine with a text by author and director Einar Schleef to create a brusque, entirely individual vision of the fragility of human existence—a book that is regularly included among the most influential photographic books of the 20th century.



PUBLISHER
Koenig Books

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 10.5 x 12 in. / 80 pgs / 39 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 132   

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ISBN 9783960983026 FLAT40
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Michael SchmidtMichael Schmidt

Frauen

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Photographs by Michael Schmidt.

Michael Schmidt's brand new series Frauen was especially conceived for the EXPO 2000 in Hanover, and portrays young women in their twenties who are still in the process of developing the characteristic features of a discrete individual identity.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 140 pgs / 56 duotone.

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Catalog: FALL 2000

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ISBN 9783883754239 SDNR30
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