"What drove me from the beginning of my practice is: Which elements compose our sense of reality? What constitutes common sense under the impact of a constant flow of individual experiences? How can picture-making educate and order my perception, and does it stabilize or irritate our existence?" - Thomas Struth
Famed photographer Thomas Struth explores these and other questions in a free-flowing conversation with Paul Holdengraber, on the occasion of the Library's new exhibition, Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography.
THOMAS STRUTH was born in Germany in 1954 and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His first comprehensive body of work on streets and architecture, Unconscious Places, has engaged him for four decades. In the mid-1980s, he started on a series of both black-and-white and colored portraits of individuals and families illustrating his vision of photography as a science-derived tool for psychological investigation. This work examines the personal and cultural dynamics that condition our self-image, exploring how this self-image will influence our individual and collective identities. In Museum Photographs, he captured anonymous individuals and crowds looking at iconic works of art in the world’s museums, characterizing museum visits as complex social rituals of seeing and being seen and addressing the way the art survives in public collections. Over the last 15 years, Struth has steadily expanded his repertoire with other themes. These include New Pictures from Paradise (1998–2007), and gathering places for religious believers or tourists (from 1998). Solo exhibitions have included Kunsthalle Bern, Dallas Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and Kyoto; Museo del Prado, Madrid. Thomas Struth lives and works in Berlin and New York.
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◇ Ivorypress Education I Thomas Struth -Panel discussion -Humanitas - 2011-05-05 - YouTube
A symposium with Glenn D. Lowry, Thomas Struth (Artist), Neil MacGregor (Director, The British Museum) and Penelope Curtis (Director, Tate Britain) held at the Said Business School on 5th May 2011.
Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the Programme is managed and funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue with the support of a series of generous benefactors and administered by the Humanities Division in Oxford and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in Cambridge.
Humanitas will welcome some twenty Visiting Professors, who will be appointed for a given academic year and invited to deliver a series of lectures, followed by a related symposium, workshop or masterclass for graduate students.
Glenn D. Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, gives a talk on Museums for the Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge series.
Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the Programme is managed and funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue with the support of a series of generous benefactors and administered by the Humanities Division in Oxford and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in Cambridge.
This professorship has been supported and organised by Ivorypress and Foster + Partners. Ivorypress has published the record of this lecture. The publication is not for sale.
