Michael Schmidt – Waffenruhe RVB Books Bringing issues of identity

Bringing issues of identity

this volume is structured as a journey through the "total art" of Bruno Munari

Or heard autumn leaves whispering a song

often based on analytical models

whose construction and design is impossible upon close inspection

Michael Schmidt – Waffenruhe RVB Books Bringing issues of identityWaffenruhe, 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