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Oskar Schmidt (b. 1977; lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig) analyzes, dissects, and restages certain aspects of photo history in his The American Series. It begins with the photographs by Walker Evans that were created for the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the 1930s, during the Great Depression in the South of the USA. In his The American Series, Schmidt takes on these icons of classic photojournalism of the past decades, recreates the scenery of Evans photographs in his studio, and photographs them anew with a large format camera. Oskar Schmidts astute and playful investigation of reality and its likeness, transforms a historic, socialdocumentary concept in his presentday artiss suudio. From the weathered wood and the artifacts of a spare life, to the dust in the dust bowl, the photographs seem to resemble their American relatives. And yet, they are constructions in the artists studio. Sceneries, which, compared to their precursors, inhabit a variation of the disposition or the perspe
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