- Hardcover: 56 pages
- Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel; illustrated edition edition (June 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3829600461
- ISBN-13: 978-3829600460
- Product Dimensions: 34.9 x 39.5 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,377,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Deep in the magical semi-darkness of forests and jungles, through the impenetrable yet bright green of the trees, tangled up in tropical plants, rampant jungle vegetation, and mossy brooks, lies paradise. At least it does in Thomas Struth's New Pictures from Paradise, in which each oversize image is a mesmerizing but photographically distant haven unto itself. From Daintree, Australia to Yunnan Province, China, from the mossy valleys of Yakushima, Japan to the looming pine forests of Bavaria, Germany and the lush rainforests of Brazil, Thomas Struth has carried out his photographic expeditions. Capturing settings of so-called untamed nature, his astonishingly detailed images carry with them thoughts of environmental exploitation, the mystification of nature, and the possibility of nature as utopia. Exhibited in monumental print sizes of up to 2.70 x 3.40 m, Struth's pictures are here presented in an appropriately large-scale format, accompanied by individual essays from psychologist Ingo Hartmann and art historian Hans Rudolph Reust, each of whom shines their own particular light into Struth's dense forests and jungles.
Essays by Ingo Hartmann and Hans Rudolf Reust.
Hardcover, 56 pages, 16.25 x 12.50 inches, 24 color and 1 b&w image.
About the Author
Thomas Struth was born in Geldern, Germany, in 1954. He studied painting with Gerhard Richter and photography with Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Struth attracted critical attention in the 1980s with seemingly unspectacular but highly complex street and cityscapes, followed by an extensive series of individual and family portraits. These gave way, in turn, to the large-scale Museum Photographs, which brought him to international fame. His work has been exhibited internationally at such museums as the Hirshorn Museum, Washington, D.C., the St. Louis Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
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