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Thomas Struth

Paradies, 2004

Description

Maker

  • Thomas Struth, b. 1954, German

Title

Paradies

Year

2004

Medium

Portfolio of six color inkjet prints

Dimensions

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

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2006.11

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

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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