Joachim Schmid

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Joachim Schmid

Joachim Schmid studied Visual Communication at Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd and Berlin University of the Arts from 1976 to 1981. He is a Berlin based artist who has worked with found photography since the early 1980s. He began his career as a freelance critic and the publisher of Fotokritik, an iconoclastic and original contribution to West German photography. In the pages of Fotokritik and in his regular articles and lectures for other venues, Schmid argued articulately and at times vehemently against prevailing, predominantly conservative notions of 'art photography' and in favour of a broad, encompassing critique of photography as a form of cultural practice.[1]

After ceasing publication of Fotokritik in 1987, Schmid focused on his own art production, based primarily on found photography and public image sources. Living near one of the largest flea markets in Berlin, he had already amassed a rich, deep, and varied collection of vernacular photography which formed the raw material for many of his works.[2]

Schmid’s use of extended series reflects his concern with photography as an encompassing, culturally dispersed and ubiquitous social and aesthetic discourse that runs throughout the public and private spheres of modern life. Yet the fundamental richness of Schmid’s photographic raw material – along with the sardonic wit he so often displays – derails any attempt to read his work as pure anthropology or social science. His artistic preoccupations reflect a close observation of photographic history and a fascination with photographic images themselves in all their alternately bizarre and conventionalized aspects.[3]

Schmid's work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of many major international institutions.[4] In 2007 Photoworks and Steidl published a comprehensive monograph Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982–2007[5] on the occasion of his first retrospective exhibition at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY.[6] He has published more than one hundred artist's books,[7] and at the end of 2009, Schmid founded the ABC Artists' Books Cooperative, a group of artists dedicated to self-publishing using print-on-demand technology.

At Les Rencontres d'Arles in 2011, Schmid was one of five curators (along with Joan Fontcuberta, Martin Parr, Erik Kessels, and Clément Chéroux) to sign his name to the From Here On manifesto, announcing a new age of photography as represented by 36 artists from around the world.[8]

Selected books by and about Schmid

Sources

  • Andress, Sarah. The Accidental Predator. Art on Paper, Vol. 12, No. 2, S. 34–35, New York, November 2007.
  • Durden, Mark. Photography, Anonymity and the Archive: Joachim Schmid. Parachute, No. 109, p. 114-127. Montreal, 2003.
  • Edwards, Elizabeth. Joachim Schmid –Belo Horizonte, Praça Rui Barbosa. Photoworks magazine, p. 36-39. Brighton, Spring/Summer 2005.
  • Fontcuberta, Joan. Archive Noise. Photoworks magazine, p. 64-69. Brighton, Spring/Summer 2005.
  • Gierstberg, Frits. No more photos please!. Perspektief, p. 58–66, Rotterdam 1991.
  • MacDonald, Gordon and John S. Weber (2007). Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982-2007. Photoworks, Brighton, and Steidl, Göttingen. ISBN 978-3-86521-394-5
  • Menegoi, Simone. I am not a photographer. MOUSSE contemporary art magazine, p. 24-27. Milan, September 2007.
  • Mireille Ribière. Georges Perec/Joachim Schmid: tentative de description d’un projet de livre d’artistes. Cahiers Georges Perec No. 10, S. 227–252, Bordeaux 2010
  • Sachsse, Rolf. Joachim Schmid's Archiv. History of Photography, Vol. 24, No. 3, p. 255-261. Oxford, Autumn 2000.
  • Vacheron, Joël. Tausend Himmel et principe d’equivalence. Tausend Himmel and the Equivalence Principle. Volume, No. 1, p. 76 – 83, Paris, June 2010.

References

  1. ↑ "Joachim Schmid". Photoworks Author Biography. Photoworks. Retrieved 16 July 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Joachim Schmid". Photoworks Author Biography. Photoworks. Retrieved 16 July 2011. 
  3. ↑ "Joachim Schmid". Photoworks Author Biography. Photoworks. Retrieved 16 July 2011. 
  4. ↑ Fotomuseum, Nederlands. "Joachim Schmid - PhotoWorks 1982-2007". Joachim Schmid - PhotoWorks 1982-2007. Retrieved 16 July 2011. 
  5. ↑ MacDonald, Gordon; Weber, John S. (2007). Gordon MacDonald, ed. Joachim Schmid Photoworks, 1982-2007. Göttingen: Steidl. p. 288. ISBN 3-86521-394-4. Retrieved 16 July 2011.  More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  6. ↑ "Joachim Schmid Selected Photoworks 1982 – 2007". Retrieved 16 July 2011. 
  7. ↑ "Une conversation avec Joachim Schmid". Retrieved 3 May 2012. 
  8. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (13 July 2011). "Why you are the future of photography". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 July 2011. 
  9. ↑ MacDonald, Gordon; Weber, John S. (2007). Gordon MacDonald, ed. Joachim Schmid Photoworks, 1982-2007. Göttingen: Steidl. p. 288. ISBN 3-86521-394-4. Retrieved 16 July 2011.  More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  10. ↑ Schmid, Joachim (2003). A meeting on holiday. Amsterdam: NECRO'VGM. ISBN 90-808285-4-8. 
  11. ↑ Schmid, Joachim (1994). Bilder von der Strasse. Berlin: Edition Fricke & Schmid. ISBN 3-927365-28-9. 
  12. ↑ Schmid, Joachim (1991). Erste allgemeine Altfotosammlung (1. Aufl. ed.). Berlin: Ed. Fricke & Schmid. ISBN 3-927365-20-3. 

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