Bits and Books // Joachim Schmid

Joachim Schmidt, Bilder von der Straße (1982-2012)

Conférence de Joachim Schmid
Invité par Anne Immelé

Mardi 22/10/2013 à 18h, amphithéâtre du QUAI (HEAR Mulhouse)

Joachim Schmid présentera ses livres photos, réalisés à partir de photo trouvées. Il abordera la question du livre d'artiste à l'ère de la photo numérique. Joachim Schmid, artiste installé à Berlin, a fondé son travail sur des photographies trouvées. Depuis près de trente ans, Joachim Schmid collecte, récupère, recycle des images issues des millions d’images produites chaque jour. Il crée à partir de ce flot d’images, déjà en circulation et leur donne une nouvelle existence hors de leur destination première.  

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Bits and Books – a talk about making artist’s books in the age of digital photography, online photo hosting, and print on demand. Joachim Schmid is a Berlin based artist who has worked with found photography since the early 1980s. After beginning his career as a freelance critic and the publisher of the West Germany photography journal Fotokritik, Schmid turned his attention to his own art production, based primarily on found photography and public image sources. 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. 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. Schmid's work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of many major international institutions. In 2007 Photoworks and Steidl published a comprehensive monograph of his work Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982-2007.

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