Joachim Schmid
born 1955 in Balingen, lives in Berlin
1976–1981 studied Visual Communication at Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd and Hochschule der Künste Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
2023
The Watch, Photofestival Vernacolare, Guiglia
Die Bibliothek, Goethe-Institut, Sofia
2021
Photoworks, P420, Bologna
2020
Kein Schweigen im Wald, forest near Zerpenschleuse
2019
Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo
Bilderbuch, Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius
2017
Bilderbuch 2.0, Galerie Block C, Groningen
2016
Lumpenfotografie, Station Kasseler Fotoforum, Kassel
Other People’s Photographs, Espace F, Matane
Hollybush Gardens, London
2015
Other People’s Photographs, Occurrence, Montreal
Souvenirs, P420 Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
2014
More Printed Matter, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
2013
SI Fest, Savignano sul Rubicone
2012
O Campo, Sala BBK, Bilbao
Bilderbuch, Zephyr/Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim
Joachim Schmid e le fotografie degli altri, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello-Balsamo/Milan
2011
Various Portraits, les arts au mur, Pessac, and image/imatge, Orthez
Other People’s Photographs, Fotohof, Salzburg
2009
Photoworks, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence
2008
Photoworks 1982–2007, BildMuseet, Umeå
Printed Matter, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
Pictures from the Street, Les Rencontres d’Arles
2007
Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982—2007, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Joachim Schmid Selected Photoworks 1982—2007, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Drucksachen und Netzerscheinungen, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin
Joachim Schmid Selected Photoworks 1982—2007, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982—2007, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Untitled Portraits, XX multiple Galerie, Rotterdam
2005
Cyberspaces, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
Cyberspaces, XX Multiple Galerie, Rotterdam
Portraits, The State Museum of Urban Sculpture, Saint Petersburg
2004
Retratos decisivos (public art project), PhotoEspaña, Estación de Metro Nuevos Ministerios, Madrid
2003
Belo Horizonte, Praça Rui Barbosa, foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
2002
Photographic Garbage Survey Project, Centro Cultural UFMG, Belo Horizonte; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife
2001
Porträts, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2000
Statics, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
The Joachim Schmid Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
1999
The Face in the Desert (public art project), National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
1998
Very Miscellaneous, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp
1997
SF Camerawork, San Francisco
Very Miscellaneous, Fabrica, Brighton
1996
Fotoarbeiten, Galerie Sreda, Moscow
Photos au rebut. Photographic Garbage Survey Project, Galerie Condé, Goethe-Institut, Paris
Documents énigmatiques, Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Espace Pablo Neruda, Arles
Kunst gegen Essen, Fotogalerie Aroma, Berlin
Photographic Garbage Survey Project, Kunst 96, Zurich
1995
Magyar Fotográfiai Múzeum, Kecskemét
Les Archives, Le printemps de Cahors, Tribunal, Cahors
Bilder von der Straße, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Archiv, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
1994
Bilder von der Straße, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund
1993
Blue Sky, Portland
Art Addicts Anonymous, Bilderdienst, Berlin
Art Addicts Anonymous, Kunst & Raum, Vienna
Taking Snapshots. Amateur Photography in Germany from 1900 to the Present, Fotofeis, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (international tour 1993–1998: York, New Delhi, Kecskemét, Warsaw, Plovdiv, Bratislava, Belgrad, Skopje, Bandung, Singapur, Manila, Bangkok, San Francisco, Yaoundé, Lomé, Addis Abeba, London, Edinburgh)
Lambe-lambe em Belo Horizonte, Centro Cultural UFMG, Belo Horizonte
Retratos anônimos, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo
1991
Erste allgemeine Altfotosammlung, Bilderdienst, Berlin
Meisterwerke der Fotokunst. Die Sammlung Fricke und Schmid, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus
1990
Meesterwerken en andere Beelden, Perspektief, Rotterdam
1988
Heinz, Inge, Struppi, and their Friends, Blue Sky, Portland
1987
Originalbilder, Galerie für den Fotofreund, Berlin
A Imagem do Fotógrafo (public art project), 8os Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra
1986
Zur Theorie der Fotografie, Galerie für den Fotofreund, Berlin
Group Exhibitions
2024
Studio/Archive, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs
Library of Artistic Print on Demand, Villa Stuck, Munich
Extrême Collection – D’Allemagne, FRAC Grand Large, Dunkerque
Desiderio – Atto Secondo, Société Interludio, Cambiano
2023
All These Fleeting Perfections, Bibliotheca Alberto Geisser, Turin
Books on Demand. Schmuddelkind der Branche?, Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Leipzig
Postkartenkilometer, Künstlerkarten in Europa von 1960 bis heute, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett
Grafik und Neuzugänge im Künstler:innenarchiv, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Pulheim
2022
Resonancias – Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE, KBr Photo Center, Barcelona
42 livres d’artistes. Sélections du Prix Bob Calle, Fondation Michalski, Montricher
Horizon(s), Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk
2021
Die relative Vermessung der Welt. Künstlerbücher aus der Sammlung Opitz-Hoffmann, Kunstsammlung Jena
Deux scenarios pour une collection, Frac Normandie Rouen
El dit a l’ull: fotografia inconscient, Museu de Granollers
Amici di Berlino, Studio Koppelkamm, Palermo
Chorinho feliz / Happy Tears, Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Ribeira Grande
2020
The Image Looks Back, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
E subito riprende il viaggio, P420, Bologna
Wunderkammer, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga
2019
smart as photography – be an artist today!, Zephyr/Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim
Etwas kam auf uns zu, Englische Straße 29, Berlin
A Work, Hollybush Gardens, London
Von Ferne. Bilder zur DDR, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Amateurfotografie. Vom Bauhaus zu Instagram, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
2018
Unboxing Photographs. Arbeiten im Fotoarchiv, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin
Earth & Sky, Société d’électricité, Brussels
2017
Evidences du réel. La photographie face à ses lacunes, Musée d’art de Pully
Copy Construct, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen
The Library, tête, Berlin
Les Nouveaux Encyclopédistes, Fotografia Europea, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia
I Am You, You Are Me, Fahrenheit 39, Ravenna
Protest, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Erik Kessels & Friends, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
Burning with pleasure #3, Seen Fifteen, London
Kein Bild ist eine Insel, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Port 25, Mannheim
The Hobbyist, Fotomuseum Winterthur
The Laughable Enigma of the Ordinary, Arquipélago, Ribeira Grande
You’ve got 1243 Unread Messages, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
2016
PowerPoint Polemics, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Corale, Frigoriferi Milanesi, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
After Photography, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
Les adoptés, Honoré Visconti, Paris
Manifolds, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Double Act: Art and Comedy, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast
Chemin faisant II, FRAC Nord – Pas de Calais, Dunkirk
Fabulous Failures, Les Rencontres d’Arles
Festival Images, Vevey
Control, Sixty Eight Middle Street, Brighton
2015
If A Circle Meets Itself, Hollybush Gardens, London
La Double vie des images, Galerie Le Réverbère, Lyon
Jardins d’hiver – Jardin d’Eden, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
Timelines, TRA Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso
Evil: A Matter of Intent, Hebrew Union College Museum, New York
You and me and everyone we do not know, Academie Minerva, Groningen
2014
L’éclipse de la figure, Les arts au mur, Pessac
Using Images, Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord – Pas-de-Calais, Douchy-les-Mines
(Mis)Understanding Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Pastiche, Parody and Piracy, The Cob Gallery, London
Summer Time, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
Secondhand, Pier 24, San Francisco
Web on the Wall, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Manifeste! Eine andere Geschichte der Fotografie, Fotomuseum Winterthur
L’art se livre, Musée des beaux-arts du Locle
The Hierarchy of Images, Foto Forum Bozen
Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography, New York Public Library
Remember who I am, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
2013
Obra-colección. El artista como coleccionista, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona; Sala Municipal de Exposiciones San Benito, Valladolid; Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia, Almeria
Ed Ruscha Books & Co., Gagosian Gallery, New York; Museum Brandhorst, München; Gagosian Gallery Paris (2015); Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills (2016)
Enrichissements de la collection 2011-12 – images / images of images / no images, Centre des livres d’artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
Lumpenfotografie. Per una fotografia senza vanagloria, P420 Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
I Artist. Transcendent Amateur, Fotofestiwal Łódź
Des images comme des oiseaux, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
Alone Together: Photography and the Other, National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina
We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen; Kunstmuseum Thun (2014); Galerie Robespierre, Grand-Synthe (2014); Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren (2014)
For Your Loving, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris
2012
Derrière le rideau – L’Esthétique Photomaton, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne; Botanique, Brussels; Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna
Help/Less, Printed Matter, New York
Bilder von der Straße, Pavlov’s Dog, Berlin
DIY: Photographers & Books, The Cleveland Museum of Art
2011
Anti-Photography, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
Follow-ed (after Hokusai), Winchester Gallery, Winchester; P74 Gallery, Ljubljana; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Femme Objet/Femme Sujet, Abbaye Saint André, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac
Graphic Detour, Graphic Design Museum, Breda; Direktorenhaus, Berlin; Freiraum Quartier21 International, Vienna (2012)
Out of Storage, De Timmerfabriek, Maastricht
Bang Bang, Centre Cultural d’Art Contemporani, Andratx; Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf
2010
I was here, Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Dudelange
Identity Proofs, Muzeum Gliwice
The Brothel Without Walls, University of Toronto Art Centre
Use Me, Abuse Me, New York Photo Festival
La revanche de l’archive photographique, Centre de la photographie Genève
Ant!foto, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
Another Streetview, Bredafoto, Breda
Mikrokosmos, Galerie Alte Schule, Kulturzentrum Adlershof, Berlin
2009
Animated, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble
Rendez-vous manqué, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
Eye/World, Triple Candie, New York
2008
The Ubiquitous Image, New York Photography Festival
Invasion/In-vision ou le Palais Rose, Musée Réattu, Arles
De orde der dingen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
Des certitudes, sans doute(s), Musée de Picardie, Amiens
2006
Photo-Trafic, Centre de la Photographie Genève
Mickey dans tous ses états, Hôtel Dassault, Paris
Poetische Positionen II, Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel
2005
Marks of Honour – A Striking Library, foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam; Galerie van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam
Portrait, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
After the Fact, Berlin Photography Festival, Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Else-Heiliger-Fonds. Ein Überblick, Akademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin
Error #2_Wrong Exposure, error one, Antwerpen
2004
O feito fotográfico. A colección fotográfica do Concello de Vigo 1984–2000, Museo de arte contemporáneo de Vigo
Porträts. Daniel Sambo-Richter und Joachim Schmid, Galerie im Waschhaus, Potsdam
Metamorfoses do Real, Mosteiro de Tibães, Encontros da Imagem, Braga
Colecção Fotográfica do Concello de Vigo, Centro Portugues de Fotografia, Porto
2003
Verarbeitete Fotografie – die Übergänge des Gegenstandes in die Abstraktion, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin
Experience, Foto Biennale Rotterdam
Vigovisións. Colección fotográfica do Concello de Vigo, Museo de arte contemporáneo de Vigo
Tot zo ver, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Perception destabilisée, Galeries du Cloître, Ècole des beaux-arts de Rennes
„Was ich von ihnen gesehen und was man mir von ihnen erzählt hatte“ – Der fotografierte Mensch in Bildern der Fotografischen Sammlung im Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg (2005)
2002
Stranger Than Truth, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Wielolinie, Galeria Sztuki, Klodzki Osrodek Kultury, Klodzko
Maskers Af! Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Mensch und Tier. Eine paradoxe Beziehung, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
2001
Alexander Honory, Joachim Schmid, Galeria FF, Lódz
Künstlerischer Wettbewerb für die Gestaltung einer Fassade an der Voltaire-Gesamtschule, Große Stadtschule, Potsdam
2000
Kunst kontra Werbung, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin
Sammeln! Museum der Dinge, Berlin
Het zicht herbekeken. Joachim Schmid, Robert van Steen, De Annex, Academie voor schone Kunsten van Sint-Niklaas
Ausblick 2001, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin
Dancing for joy et autres plaisirs…, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
1999
L’image en mémoire, Maison des Arts, Bordeaux
PhotoWork(s) in Progress II/Constructing Identity, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Fragments of Document and Memory, The 3rd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
New Natural History, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974–1999, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
Anna Gaskell, Joachim Schmid, Marjaana Kella, Hasselblad Center, Konstmuseet, Gothenburg
Trupi dhe Urnanizmi/Body and Urbanism, International Center of Culture, Tirana
1998
Le corps surexposé, Espace Carole de Bonat, Paris
The Artist and the Archive, Shoreditch Biennale, Standpoint Gallery, London
Body and Photography, Hanlim Museum, Taejon
Œuvres récentes, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
SubUrban Options, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Play it again, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Picturing Modernity. Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1997
Face to Face, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
The Found Potograph, Northbrook Photography Gallery, Worthing
Sur l’espace, la mémoire et la métaphore/On Space, Memory and Metaphor, Mois de la Photo, Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montréal
Romantica. Immagini del cuore e della colpa, VII Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin
Allemagne. Années 80, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
1996
Never Walk Alone, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Begrenzte Grenzenlosigkeit, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Vigovisións, VII Fotobienal, Casa das Artes, Vigo
1995
Privat, Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
Faire du réel avec du réel, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
Obsession. From Wunderkammer to Cyberspace, Foto Biennale, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
Baz’art du Jour, Galerie du Jour – Agnes B., Paris
1994
Who’s Looking at the Family? Barbican Art Gallery, London
II. Nemzetközi müvészkönyv-kiálitás/2nd International Artists’ Book Exhibition, Szent István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvar
Real como unha Foto, VI Fotobienal, Casa das Artes, Vigo
Different Stories, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Die Bücher der Künstler, ifa-Galerie Friedrichstraße, Berlin
1993
Within Memory, Montage ’93, Midtown Plaza Center, Rochester; The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
The Friends’ Meeting, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Borderlines, Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt am Main; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (1994)
1992
Cannibal Eyes, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Abschied von Tim & Struppi, Fotoforum Schwarzbunt, Bielefeld
Artists’ Books, Liget Galeria, Budapest
1991
Des Vessies et des Lanternes. Curiosités photographiques, Botanique, Centre culturel de la Communauté française Wallonie, Brussels; Centre National de la Photographie, Paris; Rencontres Photographiques, Carcassone; Almediterránea ’92, Almeria (1992)
1990
Preis für junge europäische Fotografen ’90, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Dresden
1989
Jovem Fotografia Alemã, Encontros da Imagem, Braga
Grupo Hafensalon, Centro de Estudos Fotográficos, Vigo
Hysterics of Photography, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
Photographie als Photographie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
1988
Hohe und niedere Fotografie, Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne
Photographs within the Wall. Ten Contemporary Berlin Photographers, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Fotovision. Projekt Fotografie nach 150 Jahren, Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Kunstraum im Messepalast, Vienna (1989); Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
1986
Für den Fotofreund, Hochschule der Künste Berlin
1985
Elementarzeichen. Urformen visueller Information, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin
1983
Krankheitsbilder, Galerie Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
100 Lochkameras/100 Photographien, Galerie Giannozzo, Berlin
Works in public collections
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Künstler:innenarchiv der Stiftung Kunstfonds, Pulheim
Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Museo de arte contemporáneo de Vigo
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs
Catalogues
Alexander Honory, The Private Institute of Contemporary Family Photography/Joachim Schmid, The Institute for the Reprocessing of Used Photographs, Lódz 2001
Joachim Schmid, Traballos Fotográficos/Photoworks 1982–2002, Vigo 2002
Joachim Schmid, Photoworks 1982–2007, Brighton/Göttingen 2007
Joachim Schmid, O Campo, Bilbao 2012
Joachim Schmid e le fotografie degli altri, Milan 2013
Selected books and catalogues containing works by Joachim Schmid
Andreas Seltzer (ed.), Krankheitsbilder, Galerie Friedrichstrasse, Berlin 1983
Rolf Langebartels (ed.), 100 Lochkameras/100 Photographien, Edition Giannozzo, Berlin 1983
Elementarzeichen. Urformen visueller Information, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1985
8os Encontros de Fotografia, Centro de Estudos de Fotografia de A.A.C., Coimbra 1987
Photographs Within the Wall. Ten Contemporary Berlin Photographers, Melbourne 1988
Hohe und niedere Fotografie, Kunsthalle Rhenania, Cologne 1988
Encontros da Imagem, Braga 1989
Des Vessies et des Lanternes. Curiosités Photographiques, Brussels 1991
Cannibal Eyes, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA 1992
Hildegard M. Wilms (ed.), Borderlines, Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt am Main 1993
Fotofeis. Scottish International Festival of Photography, Edinburgh 1993
Within Memory, Montage 93, International Festival of the Image, Rochester, NY 1993
Val Williams, Who’s Looking at the Family?, Barbican Art Gallery, London 1994
II. Nemzetközi müvészkönyv-kiálitás/2nd International Artists‘ Book Exhibition, Székesfehérvar 1994
VI Fotobienal, Centro de Estudos Fotográficos, Vigo 1994
Michael Glasmeier, Die Bücher der Künstler, Stuttgart 1994
Le Printemps de Cahors, Paris 1995
Privat, Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1995
FIAC 95, Paris 1995
Obsessions. From Wunderkammer to Cyberspace, Foto Biennale Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 1995
Michael Mack, Surface. Contemporary Photographic Practice, London 1996
Kunst 96 Zürich, Zurich 1996
VII Fotobienal, Centro de Estudos Fotográficos, Vigo 1996
Begrenzte Grenzenlosigkeit, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin 1996
Romantica. Immagini de cuore e della colpa, VII Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Turin 1997
Sur l‘espace, la mémoire et la métaphore: Le paysage dans la reprise photographique/ On Space, Memory and Metaphor: The Landscape in Photographic Reprise, Le mois de la photo, Montréal 1997
The Artist & the Archive, Shoreditch Biennale, London 1998
Body and Photography, Hanlim Museum, Taejon 1998
SubUrban Options. Photography Commissions and the Urbanization of the Landscape, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam 1998
PhotoWork(s) in Progress II/Constructing Identity, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam 1999
Fragments of Document and Memory. The 3rd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 1993
Val Williams, New Natural History, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford 1999
Le souci du document, Le mois de la photo, Montréal 1999
Trupi dhe Urbanizmi/Body and Urbanism, International Center of Culture, Tirana 1999
David Brittain (ed.), Creative Camera: 30 Years of Writing, Manchester 1999
Transformations. The Art of Recycling, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford 2000
Dave Yorath, Photography. A Crash Course, New York, NY 2000
Antonia Carver (ed.), Blink. 100 Photographers, 010 Curators, 010 Writers, London 2002
Christian Gattinoni, Yannick Vigouroux, La photographie contemporaine, Paris 2002
Mensch und Tier. Eine paradoxe Beziehung, Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden 2002
Experience, the media rat race, Rotterdam 2003
Vigovisións. Colección fotográfica do Concello de Vigo, Vigo 2003
David Campany (ed.), Art and Photography, London/New York 2003
Historias. PhotoEspaña04. Madrid 2004
Metamorfoses do Real, Encontros da Imagem, Braga 2004
Charlotte Cotton, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, London 2004
After the Fact, Berlin Photography Festival, Berlin 2005
Poetische Positionen II, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel 2006
Gauthier Huber & Arthur de Pury, Acceleration, Zurich 2007
Clément Chéroux, La photographie qui fait mouche, Paris 2009
Stephen Bull, Photography, London 2010
Quentin Bajac, Après la photographie?, Paris 2010
Clément Chéroux, Derrière le rideau – L’Esthétique Photomaton, Lausanne 2012
Luca Panaro, Tre strade per la fotografia, Carpi 2012
Sonja Kmec, Viviane Thill, Tourists & Nomads. Amateur Images of Migration, Marburg 2012
Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, Hermann Zschiegner, Various Small Books, Cambridge 2013
Simone Menegoi, Lumpenfotografie. Per una fotografia senza vanagloria, Bologna 2013
Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook. A History, volume III, London and New York 2014
Mark Durden, Photography Today, London and New York 2014
Robert Shore, Post-Photography. The Artist with a Camera, London 2014
Joan Fontcuberta, The Post-Photographic Condition, Bielefeld/Montreal 2015
Daniel Palmer, Photography and Collaboration, London/New York 2017
Robert Shore, Beg, Steal & Borrow, London 2017
Jérôme Dupeyrat, Entretiens: Perspectives contemporaines sur les publications d’artistes, Rennes 2017
Selected articles about Joachim Schmid
Frits Gierstberg, “No more photos please!”, in Perspektief No. 41, Rotterdam 1991
Wolfgang Kil, “Foto-Müll-Entsorgung”, in Neue Bildende Kunst No. 1/2, Berlin 1992
Carmelo Vega, “Retorno a la Historia/History Revisited”, in PhotoVision No. 25, Utrera-Sevilla 1994
Anthony Aziz, “Picturing the City: Meditations on Public Space”, in Camerawork, Vol. 22, No. 1, San Francisco 1995
John Weber, “Pictures from the Street”, in Art & Design/Photography in the Visual Arts, London 1995
Yves Abrioux, “Joachim Schmid”, in Untitled No. 12, London 1996
Nancy Princenthal, “Artist‘s Book Beat”, in On Paper, Vol. 1, No. 2, New York 1996
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, “Geschliffen bis zur Unkenntlichkeit: Joachim Schmid”, in Magische Allianzen: Fotografie und Kunst, Regensburg 1996
Bill Kouwenhoven, “How German is it?” (Interview), in Camerawork Vol. 24, No. 1, San Francisco 1997
Stephen Bull, “Other People‘s Photographs”, in creative camera No. 344, London 1997
Joan Fontcuberta, “Arqueologies of Tomorrow”, in Camerawork Vol. 24, No. 2, San Francisco 1997
Val Williams, “Very Miscellaneous” (Interview), in Insight, Maidstone 1998
Nancy Princenthal, “Artist‘s Book Beat”, in Art On Paper, Vol. 4, No. 1, New York 1999
Stephen Bull, “The Aprés-Garde”, in creative camera No. 357, London 1999
Dore Bowen, “Rattle & Roll”, in Afterimage, Rochester March 2000
Rolf Sachsse, “Joachim Schmid‘s Archiv”, in History of Photography Vol. 24, No. 3, London/Philadelphia 2000
Laura Thompson, “Turning Photo-Trash into Art Treasure”, in F Newsmagazine, Chicago, September 2001
Mark Durden, “Photography, Anonymity and the Archive: Joachim Schmid”, in Parachute No. 109, Montréal 2003
Mark Durden, “Szarkowski‘s Return”, in Source No. 36, Belfast 2003
Val Williams, “Lost Worlds: Vernacular Photography”, in Eye Magazine Spring 2005
Christian Gattinoni, “L‘homme sans qualités”, in Area, No. 9, Printemps, Paris 2005
Elizabeth Edwards, “Joachim Schmid, Belo Horizonte, Praça Rui Barbosa”, in Photoworks Spring/Summer 2005, Brighton 2005
Joan Fontcuberta, “Archive Noise”, in Photoworks Spring/Summer 2005, Brighton 2005
Daniel Mudie Cunningham, “Archive Anxiety: The Vernacular Turn”, in Photofile No. 78, Paddington 2006
Simone Menegoi, “I Am Not a Photographer”, in Mousse No. 10, Milan, September 2007
Glen Helfand, “Joachim Schmid”, in Artforum, New York, October 2007
Elisabeth Tonnard, “Joachim Schmid: Photoworks 1982–2007”, in Afterimage Vol. 35, No. 3, Rochester 2007
Steven Humblet, “Joachim Schmid – Photoworks”, in De Witte Raaf No. 130, Brussels, November 2007
Sarah Andress, “The Accidental Predator”, in Art on Paper Vol. 12, No. 2, New York, November 2007
James Langdon, “Crop Circles”, in grafik No. 177, Amsterdam, September 2009
Joël Vacheron, “Tausend Himmel et principe d’equivalence”, in Volume No. 1, Paris, June 2010
Pim Milo, “Photo Doctor Joachim Schmid”, in GUP No. 26, Amsterdam 2010
Mireille Ribière, “Georges Perec/Joachim Schmid: tentative de description d’un projet de livre d’artistes”, in Cahiers Georges Perec No. 10, 2010
Bill Kouwenhoven, “Lost & Found”, in British Journal of Photography Vol. 158, No. 7793, London 2011
Natalia de León, “El arribo del arte contemporáneo a la fotografía”, in Dossier No. 33, Montevideo 2012
Geoffrey Batchen, “Observing by Watching: Joachim Schmid and the Art of Exchange”, in Aperture No. 210, Spring 2013
Mark Durden, “Lost in Fascination”, in Archivo. Photography 2012, Porto 2013
Marco Bohr, “Appropriation & Voyeurism in Self-Published Photobooks”, in The Book Is Alive, Sheffield 2013
Susana Martins, “Photography as Anti-Museum? Conflicting museological concepts in the work of Joachim Schmid”, in Photographies, vol. 7, issue 2, 2014
Torsten Scheid, “Die Bilder der Anderen”, in Photonews No. 10, Oct 2014
Valentine Plisnier, “Joachim Schmid, un explorateur en photographie”, in camera No. 8, Nov 2014
Teju Cole, “On Photography”, in New York Times Magazine April 19, 2015
Emanuele Crescimanno , “Le infinite vite delle fotografie: l’ecologia delle immagini di Joachim Schmid”, in Cinergie No. 8, Bologna 2015
Robert Shore, “Orphans in the Storm”, in Elephant No.21, winter 2015
Susana Martins, “Photographing without shooting: the survival of artistic appropriation in the digital age”, in Discursos Fotográficos, vol. 12, issue 20, Londrina 2016
Tomáš Dvořák, “Gigantismus ve fotografii”, in Flash Art No.44, June 2017
Pascale Krief, “Le jeu avec la condition figurative”, in artpress hors série No. 52, November 2019
Mark Durden, “Testing humanism: the transactions of contemporary documentary photography”, in The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory, 2020
Julie-Ann Latulippe, “Par-delà les images : quand la matérialité photographique éclipse la représentation / Beyond the Image: When the Materiality of the Photograph Eclipses Representation”, in esse #101, Montréal 2021
Sabine Maria Schmidt, “Image Capital”, in Kunstforum international No. 273, Cologne 2021
Torsten Scheid, “Die Zukunft von gestern”, in Photonews No. 10, 2024
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