Growing up in postwar Germany in the aftermath of the Holocaust, with a father who had been a soldier in Hitler’s army, it’s perhaps no surprise that for artist Thomas Struth ‘the existential ...
Editor’s Note: This month supermodel and designer Claudia Schiffer is CNN Style’s guest editor. She’s commissioned a series of features around the theme of icons and iconic imagery. Between 2009 and ...
For 15 years, Thomas Struth has been practising the gentle martial art of tai chi chuan. In that time, his photography has moved tentatively inwards to address what he calls "some questions of the ...
Over the past decade or so, few contemporary photographers have inspired as much excitement as Thomas Struth. Now the subject of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (which ...
Two years ago, Thomas Struth caught a coach from the Spanish seaside city of San Sebastian and through the Basque countryside, before arriving at the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
Thomas Struth (German, born 1954), Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, chromogenic print, 81.7 x 140.5 inches. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from the Donald and Marilyn Keough Family, ...
Armstrong Hangar 703, Palmdale, 2014. Chromogenic print, 187.4 x 330.2 cm. Though many artists seek to draw parallels among humans, the natural environment, and technology, few get quite the insider’s ...
Thomas Struth’s photographs are important, intelligent, imposing, and often quite beautiful, but it’s hard to get excited about them. Though the scale and ambition of his work put Struth solidly in ...
“A long time ago I had an idea to maybe go to Disneyland,” recalls German-born photographer Thomas Struth, who first visited the Anaheim, California–based theme park in 2009 to make some test shots.
Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter For the most part, it's appropriate that Thomas Struth creates photographs of monumental scale – as scale itself is an attribute that ...