Thomas Struth (B. 1954)

Kyoto & Tomoharu Murakami, Tokyo 1991

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Thomas Struth (B. 1954)
Kyoto & Tomoharu Murakami, Tokyo 1991
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Thomas Struth, Kyoto & Tomoharu Murakami, Tokyo 1991, 4/10, 1992' (on the reverse)
colour photogragh in artist's frame
print: 37¾ x 45½in. (96 x 115.5cm.);
frame: 42¼ x 50½in. (107.3 x 128.3cm.)

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.

Literature

"Thomas Struth, Strangers and Friends, Photographs 1986-1992", London 1994, p.28 (another example from the edition illustrated in colour).
"Thomas Struth Portraits", Krefeld, 1992, p. 17 (another example from the edition illustrated in colour).
"Thomas Struth Portraits", Munich 1997, p. 27 (another example from the edition illustrated in colour).

Lot Essay

"With every photo of a family, the relationships interest me in two respects. First the relationships of people, who at that moment live in these places, with their own history. And also in the way that the pictures can go beyond that and give examples of particular way of life... I think that the question of whether a portrait is possible has quite a bit to do with whether one grants a photograph at all the capacity to generate a form of truth in representation." ("Thomas Struth 1990", New York 1990, p.30.)

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