'The collection is central' Jan 28, 2008
It is also a collection short on the sort of grand-scale pictures that have become familiar in the last decade by the likes of Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky. But the museum's general ambition is the same, on a smaller scale, as the Eastman House: encompass the history of photography reaching back to its invention in 1839. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Art Basel Miami Beach Dec 16, 2007
There were rain forests shot by Thomas Struth and a monumental disco picture by Andreas Gursky and fresh produce from the studio of Jeff Wall. (Presented at the booth of New York dealer Marian Goodman, his new work, titled Church, Carolina Street, Vancouver, Winter, pictures a clapboard building blanketed in gritty urban snow. (Globe and Mail)
Rebecca Mead on the lost art of debate Jan 2, 2007
Alexandra Munroe, Rosenkranz s wife and a curator at the Guggenheim, discussed whether movies could be categorized as art with Thomas Struth, the photographer (whose work she and Rosenkranz recently added to their collection), while Pamela Wallin, the former Canadian consul general, and Ted Kotcheff, who directs Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, speculated about whether Angelina Jolie has a Middle East adviser. (If she doesn t, Barbra Streisand certainly does, they decided. (New Yorker)
BBC television crew follows famous footsteps through city May 4, 2006
BBC director Chris Rodley says the sixty-plus photographers will include the inventors of photography, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre as well as its more modern practitioners, including James Nachtwey, Nan Goldin, Joel Sternfeld, Stephen Shore, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas, Gilles Peres, Araki, Andreas Gursky, Sally Mann, Thomas Struth, William Eggeston, Larry Clark, William Klein, Duane Michals (a McKeesport native), Harold Feinstein, Shomei Tomatsu and... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Industrial splendor Feb 11, 2006
BEIRUT: There is a considerable amount of lore surging through the international art world about Bernd and Hilla Becher, the notoriously reclusive German couple who have been working together for 40 years and have spawned an entire generation of art stars - including Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff - from their posts at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art ... This legacy is in evidence at Unesco - in Simone Nieweg's quirky portrayal of utilitarian vegetable gardens (including leak... (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
