Zé Luís (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} belittlepilgrim) wrote,@ 2007-02-22 18:53:00 |
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No new photographs until the old ones have been used up!
"Joachim Schmid is a thief and a liar. For twenty years Schmid has been taking other peoples' photographs and using them for his own purposes. He has even gone so far as to falsely claim that some of these pictures are lost works by famous photographers.
Over the last two decades Schmid has systematically investigated the possibilities of the found photograph with a rare combination of rigour and humour. Schmid begs us not to take any more pictures; to stop flooding a planet already drowning in photographs with more images. Thankfully he has been ignored, as selections from the unceasing flow of photographs produced globally have formed the basis of Schmid's fascinating projects.
Joachim Schmid may steal photographs and lie about their authors, but his misdemeanours are all in a good cause. He has shown how the supposed masters of photography plunder from the world of snapshots and yet claim their work as unique and original. He has also pointed out time and time again that snapshots themselves, far from being innocent, are elaborately constructed deceits. Over the last twenty years, Schmid has exposed the ways in which photography itself steals and lies." - Stephen Bull
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photogenic drafts - 1991
Joachim Schmid's Website
Over the last two decades Schmid has systematically investigated the possibilities of the found photograph with a rare combination of rigour and humour. Schmid begs us not to take any more pictures; to stop flooding a planet already drowning in photographs with more images. Thankfully he has been ignored, as selections from the unceasing flow of photographs produced globally have formed the basis of Schmid's fascinating projects.
Joachim Schmid may steal photographs and lie about their authors, but his misdemeanours are all in a good cause. He has shown how the supposed masters of photography plunder from the world of snapshots and yet claim their work as unique and original. He has also pointed out time and time again that snapshots themselves, far from being innocent, are elaborately constructed deceits. Over the last twenty years, Schmid has exposed the ways in which photography itself steals and lies." - Stephen Bull
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photogenic drafts - 1991
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