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Thomas Struth

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[Wikipedia] Thomas Struth is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs series, black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s, and his family photographs series. Struth lives and works between Berlin and New York.

Quotes by Thomas Struth

For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At…

All that remains

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How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these…

Body

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The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

Matter

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I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.

Photograph

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[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not…

Conscious

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If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material…

Ideas

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The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose…

Cease

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I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never…

Complexes

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[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things…

Existence

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