Berlin-based photographer Michael Schmidt (1945-2014) was acclaimed in his lifetime for his black-and-white

the story became a meandering one with seemingly no end - until the Kodachrome film with which I shot it was discontinued

It was while Michael Bond was working as a television cameraman for the BBC that he first came up with the idea for Paddington and he recalls in his own words how this came about: "I bought a small toy bear on Christmas Eve 1956

when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever

romantic British landscapes and his idiosyncratic exploration of the nude

The Camera I: Photographic Self-Portraits Héctor Mediavilla Berlin-based photographer Michael Schmidt (1945-2014)First edition of The Camera I: Photographic Self Portraits by various photographers. First impression. Medium format hardback in fine condition. About A collection of self portraits by the masters of photography from the 1850s to the present. Among them are Andre Kertesz, Nadar, Cecil Beaton and Cindy Sherman, each image conveying the personality of its maker.