Remembering Michael Schmidt

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On Saturday May 24, the photographer Michael Schmidt, best known for his bleak and unsentimental photographs of post-war Berlin, died after a severe illness at the age of 68. Characteristically taking for his subjects the grey concrete city-scapes and suburban wastelands of the war-wrecked city, he managed to communicate a sense of the melancholy and dislocation of Berlin life in the '70's, '80s and '90s.

His ph...