First edition thus. Hardcover. Gray cloth, with debossed title stamped in yellow, no dust jacket as issued. Edited by Thomas Weski. Photographs by Michael Schmidt. 316 pp. with 161 duotone plates. 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. CONDITION: Near Fine in publisher's shrink-wrap. (Slight wear at the corners where shrink wrap has been punctured, else Fine.) Published on the occasion of the 1996 exhibition Michael Schmidt: U-NI-TY at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (also traveled to the Sprengel Museum, Hannover and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden). From the publisher: "Michael Schmidt, born in Berlin 1945, is one of Germany's most famous photographers. In this artist's book, he traces the universal iconography of political systems and the images of humankind they project. Addressing the complex relationships between the individual and the state, he asks how we can resist the loss of individuality inherent in systems of mass control."
