Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs [SIGNED]

STRUTH, Thomas, BELTING, Hans

ISBN 10: 3888146410 / ISBN 13: 9783888146411

Published by Schirmer/Mosel, München, 1998

About this Item

1993/1998. First edition thus (English), first printing (first German edition was published in 1993). Signed in pencil recto the front free endpaper by Struth. Hardcover. Fine blue cloth-covered boards with title stamped in beige on cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Thomas Struth. Text (in English) by Hans Belting. Includes exhibition history and bibliography. 72 pp. with 17 four-color plates and 8 additional black and white and color reference illustrations. 12-1/8 x 13-3/4 inches. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).] Out of print. Very scarce. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A Near Mint copy. From the publisher: "Thomas Struth studied painting under Gerhard Richter and photography under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Museum Photographs by Thomas Struth, who was born in 1954, comprises seventeen large colour photos taken between 1989 and 1992 in the most important museums of the world. He investigates paintings and how they are viewed in a museum -- a complex chain of events involving various perceptual, mediating, and temporal factors, all captured in one single photo." Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel, München
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3888146410
• ISBN 13: 9783888146411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Portraiture
  • Architecture

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Thomas Struth is one of the most renowned photographers to have emerged from the Dusseldorf School, where he studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher. His most celebrated images belong to his Museum series - monumental colour photos of people visiting and viewing art in museums throughout the world, including the National Gallery in London, the Vatican, the Louvre, the Rijksmuseum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. This new edition of Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs, which was originally published in 1993, presents large-format colour reproductions of the series, including new images taken between 1992 and 2002.