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 THOMAS STRUTH – Fotografien 1978 – 2010 Kunstsammlung NRW / K20 Düsseldorf 26.02.- 19.6.2011 Der Düsseldorfer Fotokünstler Thomas Struth zählt seit den 1990er Jahren zu den international bekanntesten deutschen Künstlern und trug mit seinen Arbeiten maßgeblich zur Etablierung der Fotografie als zeitgenössische Kunstform bei. Mit analythischer Präzision und Klarheit entwirft Struth in seinen oft großformatigen Arbeiten visuelle Land…  Thomas Ruff talks to Philip Pocock (1993) Philip Pocock: Unlike the Neue Sachlichkeit of Sander or Renger-Patzsch, there is a clear crisis of belief in the objectivity of your medium in your work. True or false? Thomas Ruff: It’s both. It’s true and false. They also used the camera as an instrument to take pictures. The difference between them and me is that they believed to have captured reality and I believe to have created a p…  THOMAS RUFF – STELLAR LANDSCAPES Der Düsseldorfer Fotokünstler Thomas Ruff gehört neben Thomas Struth, Axel Hütte, Candida Höfer und Andreas Gursky zu den erfolgreichsten deutschen Künstlern der Gegenwart. Über zwei Jahre durften wir den Künstler im Atelier, beim Fotografieren, beim Rahmenbauer und der Bildbearbeitung begleiten. Entstanden ist ein 50minütiger Dokumentarfilm für unsere DVD EDITION MEDIA ART, der am 28.09.2011 im Landesmu…  Mississippi Freedom Marcher, Washington, DC, 1963 By Alan Thomas (Originally published as “Literary Snapshots of the Sho-Nuff Blues,” In These Times, March 27-April 2, 1985) “Who can dance to this bopping music? In the old days we used to like blues. And I still do. But now the kids don’t lean on the piano no more unless the piano is playing off-time.” The words are Langston Hughes’s and the images that inspired …  Thomas Struth: Talks About His “Paradise” Series ArtForum, May, 2002 At this point, Paradise consists of twenty-five photographs I’m just beginning to understand. intuition is an old word, but many things sprout from inner processes and needs and then take on a form. My approach to the jungle pictures might be said to be new, in that my initial impulses were pictorial and emotional, rather than theoretical. They are “un… INTERVIEW: “Thomas Struth: Talks About His ‘Paradise’ Series” (2002)  Nudes from Thomas Ruff Getting beyond: Is Photography a Lost Tradition? By Sara L. Marion, Afterimage, May 1, 2006 Poststructuralism, postmodernism, postmorality–the question of whether “post” is an accomplishment or merely an operative word seems to be an enduring dilemma. The question for photography since World War II has been whether the medium can excel to overcome a precluding rejection of the modernist era. The 1980s e…  Trailer for the documentary work-in-progress “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” produced and directed by award winning filmmaker, Thomas Allen Harris. The documentary is co-produced by noted scholar, curator, and author, Deborah Willis PhD who is Chair of the New York University, Tisch School of the Arts department of Photography & Imaging. Willis has authored over thirty publications o… ASX.TV: Thomas Allen Harris – “Through a Lens Darkly” (2010)  Hank Willis Thomas talks about his work. Feb 17, 2011, The February Show curated by Jun Lee and Heather Hart. …  Surfaces and Depths. Photographs by Thomas Ruff. Edited by Gerald Matt. Text by Catherine Hug, Douglas Fogle, Kurt W. Forster, Gerald Matt. Verlag fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 2009. Cat# DQ331 ISBN-13: 978-3941185500 …  Hank Willis Thomas. Digital prints from the series Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America. Mary Smith Dorward Fund and gift of Robert Smith, by exchange. TL2009.20.1-.41 …  … stereo h.t.b. 06, 2000, I used two cameras set about ten inches apart, which creates a perceptual transformation: The viewer becomes a twelve-foot-tall giant peering into a dollhouse-size interior.” ASX CHANNEL: THOMAS RUFF (© Ronald Jones, 2001. All rights reserved. All images © copyright the photographer and/or publisher) … INTERVIEW: “Thomas Ruff Talks about ‘L.M.V.D.R.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe” (2001) | ||||||||||||||
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