Passers-by
Family, colleagues, neighbours - people with whom we are in daily contact, their faces, their gestures are familiar to us. At the same time, we constantly meet people we are unfamiliar with. They come and go, pass by without being noticed. Occasionally our gaze gets stuck for a short moment on a person, a human being, for whatever reason. To capture some of these elusive moments is the intention of this book.
The portraits depicted in the book are mainly made on the road during various journeys, where people seem even stranger, which they may not be at all. The pictures were all photographed from a few meters distance. So I had to approach the people I was looking at, talk to them and ask them for their permission to take a photo.
Some people are embarrassed first, others amused or flattered, but surprisingly, most people immediately agreed and sometimes a conversation developed along the way. Occasionally I have learned more than is usually confided to a stranger. Such confidences and everything I have learned in this context shall not be passed on here. There is only the picture, a portrait, from which the viewer is able to read something or not.
Most of the people whose portraits are shown in this book I have never seen again or had contact with. They were all fleeting encounters. All people depicted in this book agreed to be photographed.
The portraits depicted in the book are mainly made on the road during various journeys, where people seem even stranger, which they may not be at all. The pictures were all photographed from a few meters distance. So I had to approach the people I was looking at, talk to them and ask them for their permission to take a photo.
Some people are embarrassed first, others amused or flattered, but surprisingly, most people immediately agreed and sometimes a conversation developed along the way. Occasionally I have learned more than is usually confided to a stranger. Such confidences and everything I have learned in this context shall not be passed on here. There is only the picture, a portrait, from which the viewer is able to read something or not.
Most of the people whose portraits are shown in this book I have never seen again or had contact with. They were all fleeting encounters. All people depicted in this book agreed to be photographed.
Original photographs are printed analogue on traditional gelatine silver fibre-based baryte paper.
Title: Passers-by
Artist: Juergen Schmidt
ISBN: 978-3-00-062967-9
Type: Hardcover
84 pages
15 × 15 cm; 5,8 × 5,8 inches approx.
Edition size: 200 numbered copies
Type of printing: offset duotone
Price: 25 EUR + shipping
Passers-by is available at:
Bookstores:
Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz, Stadtbahnbogen 593, 10623 Berlin
Libraries:
Kunstbibliothek, Berlin
Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD)
Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden
Fotohof/Bibliothek, Salzburg
Artist: Juergen Schmidt
ISBN: 978-3-00-062967-9
Type: Hardcover
84 pages
15 × 15 cm; 5,8 × 5,8 inches approx.
Edition size: 200 numbered copies
Type of printing: offset duotone
Price: 25 EUR + shipping
Passers-by is available at:
Bookstores:
Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz, Stadtbahnbogen 593, 10623 Berlin
Libraries:
Kunstbibliothek, Berlin
Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD)
Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden
Fotohof/Bibliothek, Salzburg
