Thomas Struth. (b. 1954, Geldern, Germany. Lives and works in Düsseldorf.) Struth studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf. Struth recently had a major traveling retrospective that included the Museu Sarralves, Portugal, the K20 Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, the Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland (2010-2012). He is the winner of the Spectrum-International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (1997) and the Werner Mantz Proze for Photography, The Netherlands (1992). Virtual tour of Thomas Struth: 1977-2002 Virtual tour of Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978-2010 2013 Mein Rasierspiegel-From Holthuys to Beuys, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany Le Théorème de Néfertiti, Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha Living / Loss, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland A Window on the World, Fondation de L'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland Gustave Caillebotte.
Joel Meyerowitz Photography, LLC. Eugene Atget / Biography & Images - Atget Photography.com. The life and the intention of Eugene Atget are fundamentally unknown to us. A few documented facts and a handful of recollections and legends provide a scant outline of the man: He was born in Libourne, near Bordeaux, in 1857, and worked as a sailor during his youth; from the sea he turned to the stage, with no more than minor success; at forty he quit acting, and after a tentative experiment with painting Atget became a photographer, and began his true life's work.
Until his death thirty years later he worked quietly at his calling. To a casual observer he might have seemed a typical commercial photographer of the day. He was not progressive, but worked patiently with techniques that were obsolescent when he adopted them, and very nearly anachronistic by the time of his death. Atget's work is unique on two levels.
The pictures that he made in the service of this concept are seductively and deceptively simple, wholly poised, reticent, dense with experience, mysterious, and true. Atget. Lewis Hine | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive. 303 Gallery - Stephen Shore.