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Thomas Struth

Yosemite National Park

Maker

Thomas Struth (German, b. 1954)

Title

Yosemite National Park
From Paradies

Year

2004

Medium

  • Color inkjet print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Color inkjet print

Dimensions

Image: 30.6 x 39.1 cm (12 1/16 x 15 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso: Numbered "316 B6"; Stamped "Thomas Struth griffel kinst 2004"

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2006.11.6

Type

  • Photographs

Publications

  • Books

America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

Exhibition History

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

Label copy

Yosemite is just one of the remaining old-growth forests around the world where Thomas Struth has set up his large view camera. His stated intention with these photographs 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)
Yosemite National Park; From Paradies, 2004
Color inkjet print
Image: 30.6 x 39.1 cm (12 1/16 x 15 3/8 inches)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 2006.11.6

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