Michael schmidt photography biography samples
Self-taught photographer born in Berlin in , Michael Schmidt devoted most of from his photography to his hometown, more particularly in West Berlin, where.
A project of epic scope, Schmidt included photographs that he made of portraits and landscapes in Berlin, photographs of objects of significance....
Michael Schmidt (photographer)
German photographer (1945–2014)
Michael Schmidt (6 October 1945 – 24 May 2014) was a German photographer.[1] His subjects of interest were Berlin and "the weight of German identity in modern history."[2]
In 1965 Schmidt began photographing the streets, buildings and people of West Berlin in a semi-documentary approach.[1] He went on to make a series of "ambitious projects" there, nearly all in black and white and becoming more impressionistic, until his death in 2014.[1] Each project was exhibited, then published as a book.[1]
In 1976, he founded the Werkstatt für Photographie (Workshop for Photography) in Berlin.[1][2][3]
U-nit-y was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1996, Frauen was shown at the Berlin Biennale in 2010 and Lebensmittel, a series about the global food industry, at the Venice Biennale in 2013.[1] A retrospect