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Thomas Struth
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Exhibition Dates: February 4—May 18, 2003
Exhibition Location: Special Exhibition Galleries, First Floor
Press Preview: Monday, February 3, 10 a.m.—noon
Seventy works—many grandly scaled—by photographer Thomas Struth (German, born 1954), one of the most acclaimed artists to emerge from Europe in the past two decades, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 4 through May 18, 2003. From his early black-and-white streetscapes of European and American cities to his recent mural-sized color views of primeval landscapes in Asia, Australia, and South America, Struth's superb photographs explore the traditions and the actual conditions of our world on the cusp of this newly global millennium.
The exhibition is made possible in part by Philip Morris Companies Inc.
Additional support has been provided by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund.
The exhibition was organized by the Dallas Museum of Art.
Thomas Struth will offer a comprehensive view of this prominent artist's work, including images never before seen in the United States. Many examples from the landmark Museum series—large-scale color photographs of people in museums and other cultural meccas—will be included, as well as Struth's mesmerizing individual and family portraits, raptur
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Interview with Thomas Struth: “Photographs reveal people’s inner agenda”
Thomas Struth is best known for his monumental colour photographs of people looking at art in some of the world’s leading museums and galleries, unaware that they themselves are being recorded for us in turn to scrutinise. But these multi-layered images are just one of a wide range of subjects that the German artist, who studied with both Gerhard Richter and Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, has exposed to his particular and precise form of examination. For example, Struth recently photographed Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh for a portrait commissioned by the National Gallery in London to mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. In the mid-1980s Struth began producing a still ongoing series of multi-generational family portraits, made in close collaboration with the sitters and emanating an intense immediacy that is both of and beyond the time when the shutter closed; while another enduring interest has been the largely deserted urban vistas that he describes as “Unconscious Places”. More recently Struth has been photographing the world’s forests and jungles in his wryly titled “New Pictures from Paradise”, while at the opposite end of the nature-culture spectrum, his latest i