Thomas Struth on four decades of art: ‘I know more, I see more, and I suffer more’
Charlotte Jansen | Wallpaper | 24th March 2022
A New York show of Struth’s photography poses the question – why is his work so engrossing? For decades he has photographed mind-boggling scientific equipment, family portraits, empty streets and crowded museums. Some images are huge – metres long – and full of detail, hinting at some big but undefined issue. That is exactly Struth’s intent – “to address something which has a larger scale, a larger value, than the specific details or locations shown”.