Michael Schmidt (photographer)

[1] His subjects of interest were Berlin and "the weight of German identity in modern history.

"[2] In 1965 Schmidt began photographing the streets, buildings and people of West Berlin in a semi-documentary approach.

His book Waffenruhe (1987) was included in Parr and Badger's The Photobook: A History, Volume II.

[4] Schmidt was born on 6 October 1945 in East Berlin,[1] five months after the German surrender ended World War II in Europe.

[1][2] The school "played a critical role in Berlin becoming a transatlantic forum of exchange between European and American photographers.