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Thomas Struth

Paradies

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Thomas Struth (German, b. 1954)

Title

Paradies

Year

2004

Medium

  • Portfolio of six color inkjet prints

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Portfolio of six color inkjet prints

Dimensions

Sheet: 33 x 48.3 cm (13 x 19 inches) (each)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2006.11

Type

  • Photographs

Exhibition History

America in View
Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
Sep 21, 2012 – Jan 13, 2013

Label copy

Thomas Struth stated intention with these photographs of old-growth forests is not to make an ecological, romantic, or socioeconomic statement but to immerse the viewer in a dense jungle of trunks, branches, and foliage and inspire feelings of being overwhelmed and confused, reminding us, perhaps, of how ignorant we have become about finding our way home-to nature or any other imagined paradise. Struth says of Paradies: “I didn’t want to portray a specific place, that specific forest. Rather I was trying to feel within its primeval branchings the moment of beginning that once was the world.”

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Thomas Struth (German, b. 1954)
Paradies, 2004
Portfolio of six color inkjet prints
Sheet: 33 x 48.3 cm (13 x 19 inches) (each)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 2006.11

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