Thomas Struth: Strangers and Friends Photographs 1986-1992

by Thomas Struth

Thomas Strangers and Friends Photographs 1986-1992

106 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[David]

yes. a photograph of a person standing in a museum looking at a seurat will stop you. as light filters through dirty windows with shutters and falls on you. sitting on a couch in a city one thousand miles away from your home. in quiet morning light. with the steam rising out of your ceramic coffee cup. you will stop. and sense the moment. and what is going on through the mind of the person in the photograph. and here you are. on a couch. in filtered light. remembering the time you stood in the metropolitan with the person you loved, the person you were so in love with at the time just off your elbow staring with tears streaming down her face and when you said whats the matter, she just nodded at the painting. some edward hopper whose title i forget. this is what these photographs do. they bring out the ghosts of your life and set them there on your hardwood floors before you've had your morning coffee.