STRUTH, THOMAS (1954)
STRUTH, THOMAS (1954)
STRUTH, THOMAS (1954)
Still
Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, München. 1998. First Edition. Quarto. Hardcover. Green blindstamped clothbound with lightblue endpapers. With pictorial dustjacket. 143 pages. 24 x 29½ x 2¼ cm. 1128 gr. French-English translations Charles Penwarden. Photographs by Thomas Struth. Texts (in English and French) by Régis Durand, James Lingwood, Guy Tosatto and Hripsimé Visser. Includes a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. With 44 four-color and 6 duotone plates. Published on the occasion of the 1998 exhibition Thomas Struth: Still at the Centre National de la Photographie., Paris (traveled to Carré d'Art -- Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nimes and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam). From the foreword: "Thomas Struth is considered one of the major figures of German photography. [Regarding the museum photographs] Alternatively sympathetic and ironic, Struth conducts an extremely subtle analysis of the position of the work of art in our society, of our relation to history and heritage and, lastly, of the mysterious and enduring power of art over human beings (a phenomenon which, paradoxically, photography, of all art forms, seems the best equipped to reveal). This book marks the first major European exhibition dedicated to Thomas Struth." Thomas Struth is considered one of the major figures of German photography. He combines a rigorous style with a neutral, objective vision of reality and an impressively precise technique. The first major monograph on Struth to be published in the United States, 'Still' continues a notable tradition of books by German photographers from August Sander and Albert Renger-Patzsch to Hilla and Bernd Becher, and is a beautiful survey of Struth's body of work, including stunning close-up views of flowers, restrained urban streetscapes, intimate portraits, and frenzied museum interiors. Critic Peter Schjeldahl has written in the Village Voice: "Thomas Struth [is] one of a generation of photographers whose work is the latest strength of a German art culture that seems to have no end of aces up its sleeve... His urban shots apply Becheresque formulas of static, unpopulated (surely early-morning), shadowless views with a feel for the 'typical' or 'average' aspect of a subject. As if in compensation, Struth's astonishing family portraits burn with human presence." Struth began in the early 1980s to make steely black-and-white photographs of deserted city streets and decaying buildings. In recent years, his work has diversified in subject, scale, and color to embrace increasingly ambitious subjects and challenging locations. Struth has extended his urban investigation to the inhabitants and spaces of the city, from Milan to Tokyo, while his recent landscapes and portraits complete his unique vision of the alternately public and solitary conditions of being. Name and date on front endpaper. Fine copy. As new.
Booknumber: 11986
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