The documents of the pre-paparazzi

Between 1977 and 1984, Schmidt toured with a total of 258 bands from around the world, big stars were there as Abba, AC / DC, Black Sabbath, Rod Stewart, but also small, almost forgotten today as the girl - The South African group's influence. And if now he talks about his paintings, "raves" of the atmosphere in which they occur, Schmid recalls happy moments in the proverbial "big family", it was at that moment was.

This is naturally a flirtatious Transfiguration else: trash. Therefore, a choice of words evokes submit an egalitarianism in the musical-industrial complex, which never existed, at best, as a man-delusion. On the one hand. Moreover Schmid many stars actually approached others. And he went without compromise, as a photographer - as befits a true family election - ever. Out the first of the promoter that are sent from Hamburg to Zurich ladies Supertramp as he photographed the rock just as they danced in front of their noses - these excesses, walkover. Polite speech reluctance of the other pictures. Here and there a few beers, groupies vagrancy, not more. Schmid rises behind their stars to the bedroom, but looks away when they show themselves naked.

Intimate, but his shots are a bit to remind them of Juergen Teller, half of the nineties, the beauty of the imperfect world explored in the model and thus became famous. Are perceived to be a time when not all photos Star also an impenetrable brick wall image was, like, almost innocent act Schmid stars of the pre-Papparazzi, some of them difficult.