Museum Photographs
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark H001048 huis Marseille M-STRUTH-T-2005 N000123 Noorderlicht D MON STRUTH.T 2005
TitleMuseum Photographs
Edition[editie] Second expanded edition
Photographer
Iconographic keywords
Place of publicationMunchen
PublisherSchirmer/Mosel
Year of publication2005
Pagination144
IllustrationsZwart-Wit en kleur
MaterialMonografie
Document TypeBook
ISBN3-8296-01832
Bibliographic Noteshc; biography; exh.list; publ.list
SubjectMuseumfotografie
Abstract
Synopsis:
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. Struth's photographs provoke us to explore photography's rivalry with painting, as well as such issues as how art changes by being in a museum, how it is displayed and how we look at it. In his introductory essay, Hans Belting discusses the complex questions that arise when viewing the photographs, and the way in which Struth makes viewers of his photographs aware of their own active participation in the completion of the work's meaning - not as passive consumers but as re-interpreters of the past for the needs of the present.
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. Struth's photographs provoke us to explore photography's rivalry with painting, as well as such issues as how art changes by being in a museum, how it is displayed and how we look at it. In his introductory essay, Hans Belting discusses the complex questions that arise when viewing the photographs, and the way in which Struth makes viewers of his photographs aware of their own active participation in the completion of the work's meaning - not as passive consumers but as re-interpreters of the past for the needs of the present.
| Copy number | H001048 |
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| Shelf mark | M-STRUTH-T-2005 |
| Copy number | N000123 |
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| Shelf mark | D MON STRUTH.T 2005 |