New Books

A new series of books are now available, printed on demand and only obtainable through this website. Each book is produced for the individual buyer. The editions are unlimited, but each book will be numbered and signed. The books are priced at 1 € per page and range from 24 to 240 pages. The following books are available to order now. More titles will be added throughout 2008 and in coming years.

Other People’s Photographs is a virtually all-encompassing series of books exploring the realm of amateur photography in the age of online photo hosting. The first five titles are now available, many more will follow. Each book contains 32 photographs focussing on one particular subject. The series will eventually form an encyclopedic library of digital photography.
Hardcover, 18×18 cm, 36 pages, 32 photographs, 36 € each

The first five titles include

Big Fish

Flashing

On the Road

Self

Sites

The Showbag Book
This book is composed of snapshots found on the many sites of the world’s ever-growing online picture pool. Each book is customised for the individual buyer, containing 24 to 240 pages. There are no two identical copies of The Showbag Book. Please specify the desired number of pages when ordering your copy.
Hardcover, 18×18 cm, 24 – 240 pages, 20 – 236 photographs, 24 – 240 €

For information regarding orders, payment, and shipping please click here.

Exhibition in Antwerp

De orde der dingen
September 12, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerp, Belgium

Artists: Roy Arden, Sarah Charlesworth, Marjolijn Dijkman, Hans Eijkelboom, Douglas Huebler, Sanja Ivekovic, Luis Jacob, Cameron Jamie, Arthur Lipsett, Tine Melzer, Marc Nagtzaam, Cady Noland, Peter Piller, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, ROMA Publications (Mark Manders & Roger Willems), Julian Rosefeldt, Thomas Ruff, Joachim Schmid, Steven Shearer, Nancy Spero, Batia Suter, Els Van den Meersch, Andy Warhol, Christopher Williams.
Curator: Dieter Roelstraete

Opening: Thursday, September 11, 7 – 11 pm, with a talk by Joachim Schmid

Article and interview on lensculture.com

Jim Casper’s article Celebrating photographic garbage, accompanied by an audio interview with Joachim Schmid recorded in Arles earlier this year, is now online on lensculture.com.

Exhibitions in Arles

Bilder von der Straße (Pictures from the Street)
July 8 – September 14, 2008
Les Rencontres d’Arles
Atelier de Mécanique, Parc des Ateliers

(Due to substantial damages by a thunderstorm and by vandalism the exhibition was closed on 12 July)

Invasion/In-vision ou le Palais Rose
May 17 – October 31, 2008
Musée Réattu, Arles
Curator: Christian Lacroix

Symposium in Madrid

¿Soñarán los androides con cámaras fotográficas? – Do Androids Dream with Photographic Cameras?

Photo España June 5 – 7, 2008

Speakers include AES+F, Álvaro des los Ángeles, Antonio Ansón, Geoffrey Batchen, Daniel Canogar, Clément Chéroux, Marta Dahó, Timothy Druckrey, Joan Fontcuberta, Eric Galve, Claudia Gianetti, Boris Groys, Pedro Meyer, Tanit Plana, Gervasio Sánchez, Joachim Schmid, Radu Stern, Naief Yehya.

Exhibition in New York

The Ubiquitous Image
May 14 – 18, 2008
New York Photo Festival

Artists: Claudia Angelmaier, Robert Bowen, Marco Breuer, Natalie Czech, Harrell Fletcher, Curtis Mann, Peter Piller, Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, and Useful Photography
Curator: Lesley A. Martin

Saturday, May 17th, 5 pm: The Secret Life of Images, panel featuring Lesley Martin, Joachim Schmid and Penelope Umbrico

Sunday, May 18th, 3 pm: Featured artist talk, Joachim Schmid

For details please check the festival’s website.

Exhibition in Paris

Joachim Schmid, Printed Matter
March 1 – April 5, 2008
Galerie Alain Gutharc, 7 Rue Saint-Claude, 75003 Paris
Opening: Saturday, March 1, 4 pm

Art Rotterdam

XX multiple Galerie will present works by Joachim Schmid at Art Rotterdam, February 7 – 10. The gallery will release 14 Untitled Portraits, a new artist’s book by Joachim Schmid on the occasion of the art fair.

Error one will present a digital photo installation by Joachim Schmid as part of Projector(or) during the Rotterdam art fair.

Exhibition in Umeå

Joachim Schmid, Photoworks 1982–2007
February 3 – April 27, 2008
BildMuseet, Umeå universitet, Gammlia, Umeå, Sweden
Opening: Sunday, February 3

Article in Art on Paper

A two-page article The Accidental Predator. Joachim Schmid makes art from other people’s photographs by Sarah Andress was published in the November/December 2007 issue of Art on Paper (Vol.12, No.2).

Interview on flasher.com

Now on flasher.com: video interview with Joachim Schmid by Wendy Taylor.

Article in Mousse

Simone Menegoi’s four-page article I am not a photographer was published in Mousse contemporary art magazine (issue 10, Milano, September 2007). PDF available on the magazine’s website.