Publisher/Koenig Books

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"Berlin - Wedding" (2020) is a collection of works by Michael Schmidt, one of Germany's leading postwar photographers. While based on the hard-edged landscapes of the Bechers and, more recently, Andreas Gursky, Schmidt also incorporates documentary elements of Walker Evans and other photographers, incorporating found photography for a more contemporary approach. Schmidt is a key figure in 20th-century German contemporary photography. Having long been based in Berlin, his work is characterized by a complex blend of motifs, including complex political and historical contexts, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and identity. This book is comprised of works documenting West Berlin's working-class district, "Wedding," in the late 1970s. His monochrome photographs capture everyday scenes and people, revealing the city's transformation and fragments of society. Schmidt states: "It was a completely conscious step to push photography into immeasurable grays, to make even black and white invisible. (Omitted) I thought the world could not be clearly defined, but was expressed in a variety of nuances." The first edition was published in 1978, and this is the 2020 Reprint hardcover edition.