Thomas Struth: Retrospective - Hardcover

Struth, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3829607989 ISBN 13: 9783829607988

Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH, 2017

Synopsis

Since the 1990s, Thomas Struth has been one of the best-known and internationally successful photographers of the German art scene. He studied painting under Gerhard Richter and photography under Bernd Becher, a combination that decisively influenced his eye. His images have sold for astronomical prices on the world's art markets and contributed to the fame of the "Dusseldorf School." Our volume is a compilation of representative photographs from each series of works: street photographs from the 1980s; empathetic portraits-- particularly of families; large-format "museum photographs"; nature studies; jungle photographs ("New Pictures from Paradise"); and, from the latest series, images from the realm of science. As this compendium of his work shows, Thomas Struth has succeeded in setting new aesthetic standards thanks to his great precision, chromatic clarity, sound sense of composition, and intellectual profundity.

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Review:

...Struth's work is guardedly optimistic. With clear eyes, it depicts a world moving forward and growing--haphazardly, unevenly, and imperfectly.--Andrew Russeth "Art News "

With his largest, most revealing retrospective and a major traveling exhibition, German photographer Thomas Struth's continuing evolution is on display.--Carol Kino "Wall Street Journal "

Deceptively simple, conceptually taut works... allowing us to see people wrapped up in an aesthetic experience while we are engaged in some variation of that experience. They overlay various types of viewing, encapsulating those rare moments when words fall away.--Andrew Russeth "Art News "

About the Author:

Thomas Weski was born in 1953 and is curator at Stiftung fur Fotografie und Medienkunst in Berlin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3829607989
• ISBN 13: 9783829607988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240