Thomas Struth

I saw some of his work at the Met last March. I had seen photographs in books before, but they don't do much justice. You need to see them real size.
I was particularly fascinated by his "Museum" series: monumental pictures of people visiting museums, churches, and other cultural destinations around the world, where the viewer find itself being part of the equation. We are no longer simply a beholder viewing a world outside ourselves, we have become in fact protagonists in the aesthetic game.
Thomas Struth (Germany, b.1954) is considered to be part of the "Becher School", together with Candida Hofer, Thomas Ruff, Axel Hutte and Andreas Gursky.

Posted by Eider at October 3, 2003 11:02 PM