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  unter_geiern says:

  "I don’t have to praise the photographic qualitity and technical skill of Smith’s pictures. They are too obvious. There’s more to it: For me his photographs are like authentic echoes from a world Greil Marcus once called that “old weird America”. Looking at Smith’s pictures immediately fills your head with sounds, pictures and notes of American 20th century’s culture, with today’s news and yesterday’s history.
  Taking pictures in the great tradition of American social-documentary photography Smith is a critical chronicler of the fading away “American Dream” that has too often changed into a nightmare. His allday oberservations are precise and sharp, often melancholic and poetic, showing the familiar as displeasing – like “weird scenes from the goldmine” (Jim Morrison). He explores and documents abandoned homes like a “preventive archaeologist”, not like an intruder, his camera is his shovel and his notebook. Those sad and moving, but also beautiful post-war-like pictures and his wonderful portraits of people - homeless boys in the streets of New York or workers on their last working day before their factory will be closed down – have one thing in common: he always gives the people - even if they are not present in the pictures - the only thing that’s left: dignity."

  22nd April, 2005

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  Terri Lynn says:

  "Michael's work is unpretentious and he has the unique ability to elevate the understated beauty of ordinary life to the status of art!"

  25th January, 2005

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  drp says:

  "There is a "richness" to Michael's work...in tone, subject matter, color, light, etc. It's as if the world has been magnified, saturated. And you cannot help but bathe in it."

  29th October, 2004

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