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tim connor tim connor looking at visual culture saturday january 24 2015 thomas struth striving for the big picture review by tim connor as a photography student at kunstakademie düsseldorf in the 1970s thomas struth learned to create big highly detailed pictures with his classmates now photographic luminaries andreas gursky thomas ruff and candida hofer at the time their teachers the legendary husband wife team bernd and hilla becher taught a technically rigorous system to objectively document disappearing german architecture according to the becher system subjects must be captured serially with a large format camera using black and white film under a cloudless sky all subjects must be shot from uniform distances and heights printed with medium contrast at a prescribed size and shown together to facilitate comparison in his current show at the met we see struth s homage to this exacting style a wall sized grid of black and white prints showing well known new york city intersections in 1978 older new yorkers may treasure or rue these pictures as memories but the more salient point is that soon enough nobody will be alive to remember them still there is much to admire in the way the pictures treat not only the streets and buildings but everything every parked car overloaded trash can and random walking through the shot human with exactly the same crisp non judgmental clarity crosby street soho 1978 thomas struth all rights reserved this is struth s first major project afterward his career moves on fast without abandoning the discipline and technique he has acquired from the bechers he begins to take on large ideas and issues it is his willingness to do so that animates this show in the 80s struth continues to shoot architecture and landscapes like his schoolmate gursky he takes up color and begins to use photoshop to assemble from multiple viewpoints single images of large locations and structures but unlike gursky who over the years steadily creates more and more gigantic prints of larger and larger events the chicago board of trade the olympics struth s big pictures seem uninterested in spectacle gursky wins worldwide acclaim by moving farther and farther away from what he photographs struth moves closer his pictures though still large and complex become more and more about the people present or implied within the frame they radiate emotion that can be felt by anyone these qualities are best seen in the pictures the met has collected from struth s three ongoing series roughly titled museum paradise and technology struth s museum series comes from a simple idea he photographs people looking at art and history in museums all over the world strictly realistic rendered in sumptuous colors these large calm compositions at times resemble the old master paintings that appear in many of the prints yet the unrehearsed modern tourist crowds are always there too some museum goers are reverent some are playing with their iphones and thinking about their lunch they bring a here and now immediacy to pictures meant to last art institute of chicago 1990 thomas struth all rights reserved museo del prado 7 2005 thomas struth all rights reserved the balance between large ideas the present and the past the material and the spiritual for example makes me wonder if struth is aiming for the cusp between them or do his museum pictures like many of the old religion based paintings depicted within them incline toward moral lessons if so the messages are hard to recognize extremely subtle yet the question continues to rise asked about the museum series struth said the ineffable spills into the ordinary and the spiritual aspirations of our ancestors intersect with the needs of the present it s clear that with these works struth is gesturing toward something beyond their quotidian content in fact like every artist he is imbuing lifeless materials with human energy where does that energy come from we get to decide for ourselves one thing i think we know in the museum series the goal of this energy is no longer the same as it is in the old paintings unlike the paintings the energy of the photographs is not directed at individual salvation we might think of its heaven as salvation for all art restorers at san lorenzo maggiore naples italy 1988 thomas struth i think this becomes clear in struth s paradise series photographed at ground level in various rainforests in japan australia and south america all the images in the series are called paradise and numbered only one paradise 13 yakushima japan 1999 is included in the show yet from this picture and others i have seen elsewhere paradise seems a very odd title for struth to have chosen paradise 13 for example is shot deep inside a low wet dark forest strewn with fallen trees and moss covered boulders it is certainly no eden struth is well known as an ardent environmentalist and it s hard to imagine him resorting to cheap irony some of the other forest interiors in this series are tangles of dazzling green flooded with transforming light they are beautiful to look at and as we know vital to the health of our planet but come to think of it real rainforests are always unrestrained riots of hungry competitive life they are always difficult for humans struth is making a difficult point our human instinct is to transform them to meet our needs but the earth too needs salvation paradise 13 thomas struth paradise 9 thomas struth all rights reserved with the technology series struth asks does the human genius for technology threaten our species does technology also offer hope these too are ultimately spiritual questions struth s hot rolling mill thysen krupp steel duisburg 2010 takes us into the silent interior of a gigantic industrial machine by choosing an old german steel mill and associating it with the name krupp struth is deliberately evoking hitler s third reich and the murderous weapons with which germany came close to conquering the world and the picture itself a vast brutal wall of machinery in semi darkness grime encrusted its khaki greens punctuated with the faded reds and oranges of catwalks and cables is indeed terrifying even worse a thick chain is bolted to the steel plate floor in the only area lit by a window it took bravery to make this picture struth knows exactly what he is alluding to hot rolling mill thysen krupp steel duisburg 2010 thomas struth if hot rolling mill balances past and present the most astonishing picture in the technology series presents itself literally as a fulcrum between present and future called figure 2 charite 2013 the picture shows a woman strapped to a medical gurney suspended in mid air looping in from piled machines and monitors are dozens of wires tubes and cables all of which attach to her body at first we recoil from the image it seems to be a frankenstein like experiment or perhaps some hideous torture then we notice that the room is spotless the light is clear and the woman is young and blonde with beautiful skin we are confused what are we looking at figure 2 charite 2013 thomas struth all rights reserved it s an operating theater in berlin where this anaesthesized young woman is about to undergo surgery to remove a brain tumor with the woman s full permission struth has photographed the moment before the doctors and nurses enter to begin we learn in a caption that the woman survived and two years later is living comfortably still we wouldn t know that if we hadn t been told is struth intentionally frightening us with scary technology that is actually built and used to save lives i don t think so i think he is making full use of his freedom to challenge us some things that at first seem repellent are beautiful struth s mentors the bechers photographed water towers silos and blast furnaces they judged beautiful and safe to photograph in a defeated divided germany after a vicious war now more than a half century later struth again finds beauty in our still dangerous and increasingly complicated but perhaps freer world he makes big pictures for the world this review appears in the new york photo review posted by tim connor at 11 07 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 20 2014 rem sleep disorder in the tunnel tim connor all rights reserved more photos on my flickr site posted by tim connor at 10 08 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the madonna and the whore madonna tim connor all rights reserved water girl tim connor all rights reserved more photos on my flickr site posted by tim connor at 10 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 13 2014 women of new york sidewalk of love tim connor all rights reserved tarot card reader basketball girl tim connor all rights reserved lunch in union square tim connor all rights reserved top knot tim connor all rights reserved a clean well lighted 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