Thomas Struth (Germany, 1954) is a prominent photographer known for his large-scale images of urban scenes, family portraits, and museum interiors. A member of the Düsseldorf School, he studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher. Struth's work often explores the relationship between people and their environments, capturing the complexity of modern life.
photographA photograph is an image captured with a camera. Traditionally, photographs were made by exposing film and then developing the image on light-sensitive paper using chemicals. Today, photographs can also be captured digitally and printed or displayed electronically. The process requires a camera, whether film or digital, and a photographer.
Thomas Struth (Germany, 1954) is a prominent photographer known for his large-scale images of urban scenes, family portraits, and museum interiors. A member of the Düsseldorf School, he studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher. Struth's work often explores the relationship between people and their environments, capturing the complexity of modern life.
I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.
- Thomas Struth
Renowned for his work across a wide range of subject matter, Thomas Struth is a photographer whose portfolio includes Australian rainforests, inner city scenes and intimate portraits; his New Pictures from Paradise, eight separate large-format photographs, captures the natural beauty of the Daintree rainforest – Struth has described the series as his ‘most intuitive work’. Of his creative process, Struth has stated “when I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots” - a concept exhibited in his most notable work, the Museum Photographs, an intimate and candid series that captured museum visitors as they admired works of art. Struth studied under Bernd and Hilla Bechr and the methodology he has used throughout his career was inspired by their documentarian approach, he also studied under Gerard Richter who encouraged his interests in painterly images. (Artist website)
Contemporary art refers to avant-garde or innovative art created in the recent past or present day. The exact starting point of contemporary art varies depending on the institution, often tied to the founding year of museums or galleries that showcase the style. Contemporary art is characterized by its focus on current ideas, diverse media, and the exploration of new concepts and techniques.