Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN:
9781580930949
Thomas Struth: Still offers a focused examination of the artist’s large-format photographs capturing quiet, unpeopled landscapes, dense jungles, and intricate technological environments. Moving beyond his early architectural streetscapes and human portraits, this body of work investigates the complex, overgrown textures of nature and the austere precision of high-tech industrial settings.
Whether framing the dense, entangled canopies of the Daintree Rainforest or the sterile, clinical machinery of research laboratories, Struth eliminates human presence to focus entirely on the architectural or organic structures of the modern world. The neutral, ambient lighting and monumental scale invite prolonged, contemplative observation, encouraging the viewer to confront the sublime complexity hidden within both nature and human innovation.
Thomas Struth: Still offers a focused examination of the artist’s large-format photographs capturing quiet, unpeopled landscapes, dense jungles, and intricate technological environments. Moving beyond his early architectural streetscapes and human portraits, this body of work investigates the complex, overgrown textures of nature and the austere precision of high-tech industrial settings.
Whether framing the dense, entangled canopies of the Daintree Rainforest or the sterile, clinical machinery of research laboratories, Struth eliminates human presence to focus entirely on the architectural or organic structures of the modern world. The neutral, ambient lighting and monumental scale invite prolonged, contemplative observation, encouraging the viewer to confront the sublime complexity hidden within both nature and human innovation.
Thomas Struth: Still offers a focused examination of the artist’s large-format photographs capturing quiet, unpeopled landscapes, dense jungles, and intricate technological environments. Moving beyond his early architectural streetscapes and human portraits, this body of work investigates the complex, overgrown textures of nature and the austere precision of high-tech industrial settings.
Whether framing the dense, entangled canopies of the Daintree Rainforest or the sterile, clinical machinery of research laboratories, Struth eliminates human presence to focus entirely on the architectural or organic structures of the modern world. The neutral, ambient lighting and monumental scale invite prolonged, contemplative observation, encouraging the viewer to confront the sublime complexity hidden within both nature and human innovation.