http://blog.goethe.de/meet-the-germans/archives/315-Joachim-Schmid-an-accidental-artist.html
Joachim Schmid calls himself an accidental artist.
’Frankly I don’t have a clue why I developed a sensitivity toward things,’ he told me when we met at his home-studio in Berlin. ‘There was no art, no literature, no music in my upbringing.’
The fundamental richness of Schmid’s photographic raw material – along with his sardonic wit – derails any attempt to read his work as pure anthropology or social science. Instead — by organising and recycling pictures into ordered arrangements — he creates witty and perceptive insights into our collective fascination with documenting our existence. Indeed, as well as an ‘accidental artist’, Schmid can be considered an archaeologist of the ordinary and everyday, asking us — the viewer — to reconsidered ‘unworthy’ photographic material.
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| Schmid's new Heimat is Berlin |
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