SCHMID~Joachim. Bilderbuch
Author: SCHMID~Joachim
Publisher: Schmid.worldpress.com, Berlin
Year: 2012
Artist: SCHMID~Joachim
Joachim Schmid, Bilderbuch
Digital print, colour, 23 x 16 cm, 120 pages, softcover, sewn, 250 copies
What do Elizabeth Taylor, a bicycle seat, Carlos the Jackal, a lobster, Silvio Berlusconi, and a toilet brush have in common? Nothing, except that their photographs all ended up in my archive of scanned printed matter gathered from around the world over four decades. Removed from their original news context and presented without any comment, this apparent random, unrelated series of images turns out to be a miscellaneous reflection of popular obsessions, fears and fantasies.
The book was made on the occasion of the Bilderbuch exhibition at Zephyr, Mannheim.




