Michael Schmidt – Waffenruhe RVB Books Thanks to ArtEZ Press (Arnhem)

Thanks to ArtEZ Press (Arnhem)

absurd and a little bit odd

the Netherlands

These cars – known locally as ‘gusheshe’ – were often spun in circles both as an expression of skill

Genesis details the early work of a number of contemporary photographic artists

Michael Schmidt – Waffenruhe RVB Books Thanks to ArtEZ Press (Arnhem)Waffenruhe, a now classic photobook by Michael Schmidt (1945 2014), was first published in 1987 by the Berlin based Dirk Nishen Verlag. It quickly sold out and continues to fetch high prices on the antiquarian book market; it is reprinted here for the first time. The book is Schmidt's portrait of a still divided Berlin: it brings together surprising combinations of high contrast, black and white images to express a generation's dystopian sense of life