Michael Schmidt (photographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German photographer
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Michael Schmidt (photographer)
- Michael Schmidt (6 October 1945 – 24 May 2014) was a German photographer.
- His subjects of interest were Berlin and "the weight of German identity in modern history."In 1965 Schmidt began photographing the streets, buildings and people of West Berlin in a semi-documentary approach.
- He went on to make a series of "ambitious projects" there, all in black and white and becoming more impressionistic, until his death in 2014.
- Each project was exhibited, then published as a book.
- Schmidt was a member of the Düsseldorf School of Photography.In 1976, he founded the Werkstatt für Photographie (Workshop for Photography) in Berlin.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.
- A retrospective of his work was held at Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2010.
- His book Waffenruhe (1987) was included in Parr and Badger's The Photobook: A History, Volume II.
- He died in 2014, a couple of days after winning the Prix Pictet for Lebensmittel.
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