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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Qto.,Illustrated with large colour plates, followed by the text of some 24 pages. Decorated cloth binding, a Fine copy.

Softcover, 44 pages, text in German; very good condition, clean and crisp, no internal marks.

Hardcover. First edition. As New clothbound hardcover in the publisher's shrink wrap; no dj as issued. Images made by Thomas Struth in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2009, 2011 and 2014. Photographs by Thomas Struth; essay by Ulrich Loock. 60 pages; 16 color plates; 12.5 x 11.75 inches. Text in English and German. Books ship the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 42 pages. Published in 2014. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of Thomas Struth's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. An austerely elegant production by MACK: Oversize-volume format. Purple cloth boards with white titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Thomas Struth. Essay by Ulrich Loock in the German original and felicitous English translation appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper (for the images) and archival, purple-color stock paper (for the text) in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Published as part of the travelling exhibition, "This Place", held in 2014, curated by Frederic Brenner and participated in by twelve photographers, in order to document contemporary Israel and the West Bank. Presents "Thomas Struth: Photographs". An eponymously titled (and indispensable) suite of photographs about a contentious subject, seen through the photographer's relentlessly detached gaze. "Brings together sixteen photographs of Israel and Israeli-occupied West Bank. Continues his practice of creating singular images, each within one of the strictly segregated subject-fields he has developed throughout his career: Street photographs, portraits, landscapes, and high technology. Each image carries the enduring complexity and visual distillation of human experience for which Struth is known. Approaching the sheer diversity and quiddity of the inhabited world, he attempts to represent what he has referred to as 'a particle of the conflict of the region', to photograph the political and social landscape" (Publisher's blurb). "Unified by strata of antitheses which reveal themselves as a matrix running through the work, as Struth attempts to grasp the circumscribed reality of a region where co-existence has failed, a reality that is, however, inaccessible to photography" (Ulrich Loock). It is easy to miss Loock's important point: Given what we have come to expect of the "cool" Struth-ian eye, the self-aware modesty of Struth's project is precisely what makes it unexpectedly moving - and a genuine contribution to Frederic Brenner's ambitious, multi-photographer project. He shows us Israel and the West Bank, but coolly and steadfastly refuses to make an overbearing or didactic comment on this very "hot" subject as a "concerned" photographer would have done. An absolute "must-have" title for Thomas Struth collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in pencil by Thomas Struth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 16 color plates. "Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER THOMAS STRUTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1910164127. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated wrappers with French folds; no dust jacket as issued. Video installation by Thomas Struth and Klaus vom Bruch. Essay and interview with the artists (in German) by Ulrich Loock. Unpaginated (44 pp.), with 23 four-color plates. 9-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Fine. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Luzern.

Condition: gut. 1984. Unconscious Places ist der Titel, den der Photograph Thomas Struth dem Werkteil seiner Straßenphotographien gegeben hat. Es sind Aufnahmen von Straßen aus allen Teilen der Welt und aus fast vier Jahrzehnten, die hier erstmals in einer großen Auswahl versammelt sind. Wie der Titel bereits andeutet, sind es nicht die Prachtstraßen, die touristischen Attraktionen oder Promenaden, mit denen sich die großen Städte in der Regel schmücken, sondern Straßen, die der Fußgänger und vielleicht vor allem der Einheimische zunächst eher mit seinem Unterbewusstsein wahrnimmt als mit seinem Bewusstsein. Andererseits aber ist die Gestalt unserer Städte vom kollektiven Unbewussten ihrer Bürger durchwirkt, und neben den faktischen Einflüssen sind es auch wechselseitige psychologische Kräfte, die Urbanität erst entstehen lassen. Durch die strengen und sorgfältig komponierten Bilder, die Struth von diesen in der Regel unrepräsentativen Orten aufnimmt, wird der Betrachter angeleitet, an diesem Prozess teilzunehmen. Architektur und Urbanität, lokale Bautradition und internationaler Architekturstil, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, geographische Eigenheiten, all das bringen Thomas Struths Photographien Bild für Bild zu Bewusstsein in des Wortes wahrster Bedeutung. Die serielle Form des Buches tut ein Übriges, um diesen Prozess Seite für Seite in Gang zu setzen. So entsteht ein ästhetisches Kontinuum, das aus der Aneinanderreihung von Verkehrsadern und Häusern von deren Außenansicht sozusagen und dem ordnenden und liebevollen, immer aber gewissenhaften Blick des Photographen Thomas Struth einen Strom anthropologischer Erkenntnis hervortreten lässt. Der große amerikanische Soziologe, Philosoph und Schriftsteller Richard Sennett war von diesem Werk so begeistert, dass er uns und dem Künstler spontan einen einführenden Essay für dieses Buch geschrieben hat. This book was published on the occasion of thoms Struth`s exhibition "Unconscious Places" in the Kunsthalle Bern, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster and Portikus, Frankfurt/Main in 1987 and 1988. Diese Publikation erschien anläßlich Thomas Struth`s Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Bern, The Fruitmarket Gallery/Edinburgh, Westfälisches Landesmuseum/Münster und Portikus, Frankfurt/Main in den Jahren 1987 und 1988 Co-Autor Thomas Struth, Ulrich Loock, Ingo Hartmann, Friedrich Meschede Zusatzinfo 90 Abb. Maße 315 x 270 mm ISBN-10 3-88375-074-3 / 3883750743 ISBN-13 978-3-88375-074-3 / 9783883750743 In deutscher Sprache. 94 pages.

Softcover, 94 pages, in English and German; very good condition, the cover is lightly yellowed and has a few stray scuffs; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.