Publisher/Koenig Books

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"Waffenruhe (Reprint Edition, Unopened)" is a collection of works by Germany's leading photographer, Michael Schmidt (1945-2014). Schmidt is an artist who is not well known outside of photography fans, but the magnificence of the work he left behind is outstanding, and is currently being re-evaluated. Based on the complex (political) background of "Berlin", Schmidt always uses elements such as "city", "politics", "state", "people" and "identity" as motifs in his creations. I kept going. And this book is a representative work published in 1987, and is a book that leaves its name in the history of German photography in the 20th century. Before the reunification of East and West Germany, a city with a dark appearance such as "disconnection" and "absence" is depicted in black and white. The style is novel, mixing graffiti like Aaron Siskind and portraits of young people reminiscent of subcultures with New Topographics elements such as Hitoshi Tsukiji, Louis Boltz, and even John Gossage. A very significant book in the sense that it presents a new way of presenting photographs. This is a reprint edition published in 2018 for the first time in 30 years. English edition. Brand new unopened.