Michael Schmidt - Waffenruhe - 2017

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Koenig Books, Cologne, London. Stiftung für Fotografie und Medienkunst, Archiv Michael Schmidt. 2018.
Second edition.

Softcover with dustjacket. 265 x 300 mm (11 3/4 x 10 1/2 in). 80 pages with 39 black and white photos. Text: Janos Frecot, Einar Schleef, Karin Schmidt, Thomas Weski. Text in German.

The most famous book by the legendary German photographer Michael Schmidt - in perfect condition.

Michael Schmidt was born in Berlin and has photo-graphed there since the 1960s. In the 1980s he established the Werkstatt für Fotographie, a collective led based at the Volkshochschule, Kreuzberg in Berlin which invited a number of American photographers such as William Eggleston, Larry Clark, Lewis Baltz, and John Gossage to Berlin where they made work and gave workshops. The resulting cross-fertilisation of ideas resulted in several key books of the late 1980s, including Schmidt's own Waffenruhe, a portrait of the city made a few years before the fall of communism.