Waffenruhe - Photobookstore
Waffenruhe
Waffenruhe - Photobookstore
Waffenruhe

Waffenruhe

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  • Walter Koenig 2018
  • Softcover, 2nd edition
  • New

Waffenruhe, a now classic photobook by Michael Schmidt (1945-2014), was first published in 1987 by the Berlin-based Dirk Nishen Verlag. It quickly sold out and continues to fetch high prices on the antiquarian book market; it is reprinted here for the first time. The book is Schmidt's portrait of a still-divided Berlin: it brings together surprising combinations of high-contrast, black-and-white images to express a generation's dystopian sense of life shortly before the fall of the Wall. Schmidt evokes a world of ruptures and absences that eschews any comprehensive perspective.

The images combine with a text by author and director Einar Schleef to create a brusque, entirely individual vision of the fragility of human existence--a book that is regularly included among the most influential photographic books of the 20th century.

Out of print 2018 reprinted English edition.