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 ...
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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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Very Good. 1994. Cloth, dj. Folio. 106 pp. 20 color illustrations, 37 duotone illustrations. Some shelf wear, sunning, and noticeable chipping to dust jacket. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Photography. )
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Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket. Exhibition Catalogue. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., bottom edge has three partial, faint mit press logo stamps. dj has some shallow, minor edge-wear at top of front panel and some light sun-fading from adjacent books on the shelf presumeably. very faint small sticker-ghost on cover. no other flaws. clean. no other markings. no bumps. tight binding.; 108pp., 20 color and 37 duotone reproductions. essay.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 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.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 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.