Oskar Schmidt (German and English Edition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3954760819 ISBN 13: 9783954760817

Publisher: DISTANZ, 2014

Synopsis

Oskar Schmidt (b. 1977; lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig) analyzes, dissects, and restages certain aspects of photo history in his The American Series. It begins with the photographs by Walker Evans that were created for the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the 1930s, during the Great Depression in the South of the USA. In his The American Series, Schmidt takes on these icons of classic photojournalism of the past decades, recreates the scenery of Evan's photographs in his studio, and photographs them anew with a large format camera. Oskar Schmidt's astute and playful investigation of reality and its likeness, transforms a historic, socialdocumentary concept in his presentday artis's suudio. From the weathered wood and the artifacts of a spare life, to the dust in the dust bowl, the photographs seem to resemble their American relatives. And yet, they are constructions in the artist's studio. Sceneries, which, compared to their precursors, inhabit a variation of the disposition or the perspective, and therefore provoke a look on the construction of history, as well as photography. This is the first extensive publication on the artist.

About this edition

• Publisher: DISTANZ
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3954760819
• ISBN 13: 9783954760817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Harder Matthias