Joachim Schmid

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Joachim Schmid

Joachim Schmid (born May 21, 1955 in Balingen ) is a German artist , photographer and author of artist books .

Life

Joachim Schmid studied visual communication from 1976 to 1981 at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Applied Sciences (now Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Design ) and at the Berlin University of the Arts (now Berlin University of the Arts ). He lives and works as a visual artist, photographer and critic in Berlin.

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Many of Schmid's works are based on found photographs; in 1989 he coined the motto “No new photos until the old ones are used up” for his way of working. From 1982 to 2012, he collected all the photographs found in public spaces for his most extensive work, "Pictures from the Street". In his contribution to the book Joachim Schmid e le fotografie degli altri , the Italian artist and theoretician Franco Vaccari coined the generic term rag photography for Schmid's work.

Schmid's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad and is in the collections of several museums ( Folkwang Museum Essen , Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ). On the occasion of his first retrospective at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, New York, the extensive monograph Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982–2007 was published by Steidl Verlag .

From 1982 to 1987 Schmid was editor, publisher and main author of the magazine Fotokritik. After he discontinued the magazine, he published a variety of artist books. In 2009 he founded ABC Artists' Books Cooperative, an international network by and for artists who create print-on-demand artist books.

In 2014, the Hillmann Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art produced the documentary Discarded: Joachim Schmid and the Anti-Museum about his work in the series The Invisible Photograph .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: Alain Gutharc Gallery, Paris
  • 2001: The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
  • 2003: foam Photography Museum Amsterdam
  • 2004: PHotoEspaña , Madrid
  • 2005: Alain Gutharc Gallery, Paris
  • 2007: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
  • 2007: The Photographers' Gallery, London
  • 2007: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
  • 2007: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
  • 2008: BildMuseet Umeå , Umeå
  • 2008: Alain Gutharc Gallery, Paris
  • 2008: Les Rencontres d'Arles
  • 2011: Fotohof Salzburg
  • 2012: Galerie Zephyr, Mannheim
  • 2012: Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello-Balsamo, Milan
  • 2014: Alain Gutharc Gallery, Paris
  • 2015: Occurrence, Montreal
  • 2015: P420 Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
  • 2016: Station Kasseler Fotoforum, Kassel
  • 2016: Hollybush Gardens, London
  • 2017: Gallery Block C, Groningen
  • 2019: Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo

Books by and about Joachim Schmid

  • Joachim Schmid: A meeting on holiday . Amsterdam: NEROC'VGM, 2003, ISBN 90-808285-4-8
  • Joachim Schmid: Art Peace China Daily , Berlin, 2018
  • Joachim Schmid: Pictures from the street , Berlin, Edition Fricke & Schmid, 1994, ISBN 3-927365-28-9
  • Joachim Schmid: Picture Book , Berlin / Mannheim, 2012
  • Joachim Schmid: Picture Book 2.0 , Berlin, 2017
  • Joachim Schmid: E-Book , Berlin, 2016
  • Joachim Schmid: First general collection of old photos , Berlin, Edition Fricke & Schmid, 1991, ISBN 3-927365-20-3
  • Joachim Schmid: Photo book , Berlin, 2018
  • Joachim Schmid: Il Mare , Zerpenschleuse, 2019
  • Joachim Schmid: Art against Essen , Berlin, Edition Fricke & Schmid, 1996, ISBN 3-927365-31-9
  • Joachim Schmid: Lambe Lambe , Barcelona and Mexico City, Editorial RM, 2014, ISBN 978-84-16282-00-5
  • Joachim Schmid: Main Street , Berlin, 2015
  • Joachim Schmid: One Day in May , Berlin, 2014
  • Joachim Schmid: Sinterklaas ziet alles , Rotterdam, Nederlands Foto Instituut, 1998, ISBN 90-76085-08-0
  • Joachim Schmid: The Coach House / An Inventory , Breda, Graphik Design Museum, 2011
  • Joachim Schmid: Very Miscellaneous , Maidstone, Photoworks, 1997, ISBN 0-9517427-3-6
  • Joachim Schmid: Viaggio in Italia , Bologna, P420, 2015, ISBN 978-88-98476-07-7
  • Joachim Schmid: Vom Gehen , Berlin, 2017
  • Joachim Schmid: X Marks the Spot , Berlin, 2013
  • Stephen Bull: Joachim Schmid. Traballos Fotográficos 1982–2002 , Vigo, Centro de Estudos Fotográficos, 2002, ISBN 84-87882-21-8
  • Gordon MacDonald and John S. Weber: Joachim Schmid. Photoworks 1982–2007 , Brighton, Photoworks and Göttingen, Steidl, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-394-5
  • Elisabeth Tonnard: Joachim Schmid Works , Leerdam, 2016
  • Roberta Valtorta: Joachim Schmid e le fotografie degli altri , Milan, Johan & Levi, 2012, ISBN 978-88-6010-094-8

Texts about Joachim Schmid

  • Frits Gierstberg: No more photos please! Perspective, No. 41, pp. 58-66, Rotterdam 1991
  • Ulf Erdmann Ziegler: Polished beyond recognition: Joachim Schmid , in Magical Alliances: Photography and Art, Regensburg 1996
  • Rolf Sachsse: Joachim Schmid's archive. History of Photography, Vol. 24, No. 3, p. 255-261. Oxford, Autumn 2000
  • Lech Lechowicz: Collections that restore the utility of found photographs, in: Alexander Honory, The Private Institute of Contemporary Family Photography / Joachim Schmid, The Institute for the Reprocessing of Used Photographs, Galeria FF, Łódź 2001
  • Laura Thompson: Turning Photo-Trash into Art Treasure. F Newsmagazine, Chicago, September 2001
  • Mark Durden: Photography, Anonymity and the Archive: Joachim Schmid. Parachute, No. 109, pp. 114-127. Montreal, 2003
  • Elizabeth Edwards: Joachim Schmid - Belo Horizonte, Praça Rui Barbosa. Photoworks, pp. 36-39, Brighton, Spring / Summer 2005
  • Joan Fontcuberta: Archive Noise. Photoworks, pp. 64-69. Brighton, Spring / Summer 2005
  • Simone Menegoi: I am not a photographer. MOUSSE contemporary art magazine, pp. 24-27, Milan, September 2007
  • Sarah Andress: The Accidental Predator. Art on Paper Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 34-35, New York, November 2007
  • Joël Vacheron: A thousand skies et principe d'equivalence. A thousand skies and the Equivalence Principle. Volume, No. 1, pp. 76-83, Paris, June 2010
  • Mireille Ribière: Georges Perec / Joachim Schmid: tentative de description d'un projet de livre d'artistes. Cahiers Georges Perec No. 10, pp. 227-252, Bordeaux 2010
  • Bill Kouwenhoven: Lost & Found. British Journal of Photography, Vol. 158, No. 7793, London 2011
  • Natalia de León: El arribo del arte contemporáneo a la fotografía. Dossier No. 33, Montevideo 2012
  • Geoffrey Batchen: Observing by Watching: Joachim Schmid and the Art of Exchange. Aperture No. 210, New York 2013
  • Mark Durden, “Lost in Fascination,” in Archivo. Photography 2012, Porto 2013
  • Marco Bohr, “Appropriation & Voyeurism in Self-Published Photobooks”, in The Book Is Alive, Sheffield 2013
  • Susana Martins, Photography as Anti-Museum? Conflicting museological concepts in the work of Joachim Schmid. Photographies, vol. 7, issue 2, 2014
  • Valentine Plisnier, Joachim Schmid, un explorateur en photographie. Camera No. 8, Paris, Nov 2014
  • Robert Shore, Orphans in the Storm. Elephant No. 21, London, winter 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roberta Valtorta: Joachim Schmid e le fotografie degli altri , Johan & Levi, 2012, p. 65 ff.
  2. ^ Art Aspects - Exhibitions , accessed on July 28, 2011.
  3. ^ Gordon MacDonald and John S. Weber: Joachim Schmid. Photoworks 1982–2007 , Photoworks and Steidl, 2007
  4. ↑ Critique of Photography (PDF file; 275 kB) accessed on July 28, 2011
  5. ^ Michael Glasmeier: The books of the artist. Publications and editions since the 1960s in Germany , Institute for Foreign Relations, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1994, p. 106 ff.

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SURNAME Schmid, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, photographer and author of artist books
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Balingen