| Dates: | 1954 - | | Born: | Germany, Niederrhein, Geldern | | Active: | Germany | | Gender: | Male |
Landscape, family shots and buildings.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Studied with Gerhard Richter and Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, Germany, where a new generation of photographers emerged in the 1980s and were noted for the cool intellectual detachment and epic scale of their color photographic work. The conceptual underpinnings of Struth’s training find form in psychological landscapes of contemporary urban malaise. With precise detail, saturated color, and grand scope, he pictures such public spaces as church and museum interiors with a contemplative detachment that can also be found in his earlier black and white images of city streets. He has exhibited internationally since the late 1980s, and has numerous monographs published of his work. He lives in Düsseldorf.
(Author: Garie Waltzer - Photographer and consultant)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Bryson, Norman; Buchloh, Benjamin H.D. & Weski, Thomas (essays), 2001, Thomas Struth: Portraits, (Munich: P Schirmer/Mosel) [Δ]
Hartmann, Ingo & Reust, Hans Rudolf (essays), 2002, Thomas Struth: New Pictures from Paradise, (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel) [Δ]
Schwarz, Dieter (essay), 2001, Thomas Struth: Dandelion Room, (NY.: DAP/Shirmer/Mosel) [Δ]
Struth, T.; Lingwood, J. & Teitelbaum, M. (eds.), 1994, Thomas Struth: Strangers and Friends: Photographs 1986–1992, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press) [Δ]
Struth, Thomas, 1993, Museum Photographs, (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel) [Δ]
Struth, Thomas, 2001, Still, (New York: The Monacelli Press) [Δ]
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