Public Restrooms
This series of photographs explores public restrooms not as curiosities, but as studies of design and intention. They reveal the aesthetic and cultural identity of spaces within restaurants, museums, and other publicly accessible buildings. Some are modest, others extravagant; some strictly functional. What unites them all is the subtle tension between privacy and public space - a tension that remains, despite every design effort.
The Photographs were taken during travels in North America and Europe.
Territories
We live in an age in which man has taken almost complete possession of the earth and its condition is dominated by this species as never before. We speak of the Anthropocene. No patch of earth seems to be unaffected anymore by our actions, the management of soils, the regulation of surface waters, the construction of settlements and traffic routes. This book does not intend to denounce these conditions. It rather attempts to record the everyday traces that we humans leave behind, large and small, beautiful and not so beautiful. Linked together, the images follow an aimless journey along an arbitrary route, a random sampling that provides more or less unspectacular views of our world as is at present.
Original photographs are printed analogue on traditional gelatine silver fibre-based baryte paper.
Title: Territories
Artist: Juergen Schmidt
Essay: Katja Dannowski
ISBN: 978-3-9823277-2-3
Type: Hardcover
66 pages
21 × 21 cm; 8,3 × 8,3 inches approx.
Edition size: 200 numbered copies
Type of printing: offset duotone
Price: 38 EUR + shipping
Territories is available at:
Libraries:
Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden
Artist: Juergen Schmidt
Essay: Katja Dannowski
ISBN: 978-3-9823277-2-3
Type: Hardcover
66 pages
21 × 21 cm; 8,3 × 8,3 inches approx.
Edition size: 200 numbered copies
Type of printing: offset duotone
Price: 38 EUR + shipping
Territories is available at:
Libraries:
Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden
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 Schmid
Essay: Katja Dannowski
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 Schmid
Essay: Katja Dannowski
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
Travel Length
Images of cities are part of our memories. We recognize major cities such as Paris or New York immediately when we see them in pictures – even if we have not been there ourselves. What makes them so memorable? It seems, that globally known monuments such as the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building – photographed and reproduced in mass media countless times – has been burned into our collective visual memory.
Of course cities are much more than that – their individuality is made up of their inner contrasts, their representative, busy, often neglected parts. Whoever gets the chance to experience a place beyond the obligatory, touristic attractions might discover a more complex, maybe even contradictory image, characterized by personal impressions, at times vague and impossible to be clearly described by words or images.
Of course cities are much more than that – their individuality is made up of their inner contrasts, their representative, busy, often neglected parts. Whoever gets the chance to experience a place beyond the obligatory, touristic attractions might discover a more complex, maybe even contradictory image, characterized by personal impressions, at times vague and impossible to be clearly described by words or images.
In any case, our memories are most often inseparably linked to places – if only subliminal. This series of photographs tries to trace those memories – aside from the images that are worn out by their omnipresence. This attempt has to remain fragmental - actually the approach is similar to a random sampling. The book aims to show the subjectively experienced uniqueness of a place – as inadequate it may be. In a time in which conformity gets ever more important, that is not that simple. You`ll find images of unspectacular facades, backyards, public spaces, everyday street corners. Despite their ordinariness, these places unfold their own individual visual identity. As images in our memory, they compete for a permanent place in our visual recollection.
Original photographs are printed analogue on traditional gelatine silver fibre-based baryte paper.
Original photographs are printed analogue on traditional gelatine silver fibre-based baryte paper.
Title: Travel Length
Artist: Juergen Schmidt
Essay: Katja Dannowski
ISBN: 978-3-00-055633-3
Type: Hardcover
72 pages
27 × 27 cm; 10,6 × 10,6 inches approx.
Edition size: 200 numbered copies
Type of printing: offset duotone
Price: 38 EUR + shipping
Travel Length is available at:
Bookstores:
Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz, Stadtbahnbogen 593, 10623 Berlin
Büchers Best, Luisenstraße 37, 01099 Dresden
Libraries:
Kunstbibliothek, Berlin
Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD)
Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden
Fotohof/Bibliothek, Salzburg
Galerie Ostlicht/Bibliothek, Wien
Artist: Juergen Schmidt
Essay: Katja Dannowski
ISBN: 978-3-00-055633-3
Type: Hardcover
72 pages
27 × 27 cm; 10,6 × 10,6 inches approx.
Edition size: 200 numbered copies
Type of printing: offset duotone
Price: 38 EUR + shipping
Travel Length is available at:
Bookstores:
Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz, Stadtbahnbogen 593, 10623 Berlin
Büchers Best, Luisenstraße 37, 01099 Dresden
Libraries:
Kunstbibliothek, Berlin
Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD)
Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden
Fotohof/Bibliothek, Salzburg
Galerie Ostlicht/Bibliothek, Wien