The Photographers Gallery

'The Photographers' Gallery's programme of exhibitions, events and off-site projects is one of the UK's most exciting and dynamic and aims to illuminate and develop international and British photography today.'

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For the last 25 years Joachim Schmid (b. 1955) has challenged the traditional and prevailing idea of ‘art photography’. Instead, he has championed the importance of photographs that are produced and seen everyday; ranging from passport photos, to high street studio portraits, ID cards and, more recently, the Internet.


This exhibition features the work of three ‘photo’ magazines that use found and discarded photographs and ephemera as their starting point. Drawing from the archives of Found Magazine (USA), Useful Photography (Netherlands) and Ohio (Germany), the installation includes highly-personal Polaroids, fading studio portraits, blurry snaps, internet images, amateur collages, homemade greetings cards and pages torn from other magazines.


This is the fourth in the In Focus series, an ongoing part of the exhibition programme at the Gallery. In Focus links together, using broad themes, the topics of the current exhibitions.