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In his first book to be published in the United States, German photographer Thomas Struth explores the social space and mental state of the modern metropolis. Thomas Struth: Strangers & Friends covers the entire trajectory of Struth's career and his work in several subject matters, including his restrained and rigorous architectural photographs, intimate family portraits, and frenzied museum interiors.
A former student of artist Gerhard Richter and of photographers Hilla and Bernd Becher, Struth began in the early 1980s to make steely black and white photographs of deserted city streets and decaying buildings in a restrained and rigorous style that seemed to underscore his debt to his teachers. In recent years, his work has diversified in subject, scale, and color to embrace increasingly ambitious subjects and challenging locations. Struth has extended his urban investigation to the inhabitants and interior spaces of the city, from Naples to Tokyo to Chicago to Berlin, portraying the relationships, conscious and unconscious, through which we build and abandon our identities in a world of transitory physical and social structures.
Thomas Struth: Strangers & Friends continues a notable tradition of books by German photographers from August Sander and Albert Renger-Patzsch to Hilla and Bernd Becher. It is the most complete presentation of Struth's work to date, following Unconscious Places (1987) and Museum Photographs (1993).
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"Thomas Struth [is] one of a generation of photographers whose work is the latest strength of a German art culture that seems to have no end of aces up its sleeve. . . . His urban shots apply Becheresque formulas of static, unpopulated (surely early- morning), shadowless views with a feel for the `typical' or `average' aspect of a subject. (As if in compensation, Struth's astonishing family portraits burn with human presence. . . . His museum pictures, meanwhile, are wittily theatrical apostrophes of the `artspace' situations in which they are displayed. They are also beautiful.) Struth's work has taught me to appreciate, in retrospect, the fecundity of the Bechers, who helped form the aesthetic and ethical alphabet with which their ex-student spells out sheer poetry."
—Peter Schjeldahl, The Village Voice
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a very good hardcover copy with an almost very good dust jacket, which has some fading. Completely clean. Essay by Richard Sennett. Illustrated mostly in color with Thomas Struth's photographs. 13" high X 10" wide, 106 pages. Seller Inventory # 016258
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Early retrospective monograph on the major German photographer. Features work from urban landscapes, portraits and museum series. Twenty colour and thirty-seven duo-tone images. Some sunning and edge wear to dust jacket. Otherwise inside pages are in fine condition without marks, inscriptions or fading. Not ex-library or a remainder. 106 pages. s21f18. Seller Inventory # EDB00817
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Gray cloth with debossed title on front cover and spine, with printed dust jacket. Photographs by Thomas Struth. Edited by James Lingwood and Matthew Teitelbaum. Essay by Richard Sennett. Includes a list of plates. Designed by Lambert und Ott, Düsseldorf, and Thomas Struth. 108 pp. (including 2 two-page gatefolds), with 20 four-color and 37 duotone plates, beautifully printed on fine paper by Druckerei Heinrich Winterscheidt GmbH, Düsseldorf. 12-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (sunning to the edges, else Fine). Published on the occasion of the 1994 exhibition Thomas Struth: Strangers and Friends, curated by James Lingwood and Matthew Teitelbaum, at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (also traveled to venues in London and Toronto). This is Struth's third book of photographs. Seller Inventory # 112239