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Photograph from "Frauen" series
1999 · Gelatin silver print
17 5/16 × 11 3/4" (44 × 29.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Michael Schmidt
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PhotographyConceptual ArtPhotography
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224
Works in Collection
452
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New Photography 4: Patrick Faigenbaum, Reagan Louie, and Michael Schmidt
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988–1989
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Michael Schmidt was a German photographer known for stark, formally rigorous black-and-white images of urban decay and architectural fragments in postwar Berlin. Working primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, he developed a distinctive approach to documentary photography that emphasized geometric composition and the materiality of the photographic print itself. His work engaged with the psychological and physical landscape of a divided city, treating ruins and ordinary streets as subjects of formal and conceptual weight rather than mere historical record.
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