书名：Thomas Struth: Thomas Struth  

ISBN：9781910164129  
作者：Struth, Thomas  
版次：1  
出版时间：2014-01  

两个国家之间无法调和的共存状态决定了现实的方方面面……没有任何图像能够跨越这种分裂。

乌尔里希·洛克本书收录了托马斯·斯特鲁斯于2009年、2011年和2014年在以色列及以色列占领的约旦河西岸拍摄的十六张照片。斯特鲁斯延续了他创作独特影像的方式，每一张照片都归属于他职业生涯中发展出的严格划分的主题领域之一：街头摄影、肖像摄影、风景摄影以及高科技摄影。每一幅图像都承载着斯特鲁斯所擅长的那种持久的复杂性，以及对人类体验的视觉提炼。他探索着这个有人居住的世界的巨大多样性和本质，试图呈现他所描述的 “该地区冲突的一个片段”，以逐个片段的方式拍摄充满冲突的政治与社会景象。乌尔里希·洛克在书中的文章里提出，这一系列图像通过 “对立层次[它们展现为贯穿作品的一个矩阵]” 而统一起来，因为斯特鲁斯试图把握一个共存已然失败的地区有限的现实，一个摄影难以触及的现实。在某些方面，这一非凡的作品系列偏离了斯特鲁斯的传统创作方式：所有照片都与单一的地理和政治现实相关，仿佛斯特鲁斯在一个地方找到了他摄影视野的所有方面，仿佛以色列和约旦河西岸是人类生存状况范围的一个地理容器。德国摄影师托马斯·斯特鲁斯（生于1954年）因其广泛的作品而在国际上获得认可，其作品包括城市、风景、肖像以及建筑室内摄影。他曾在杜塞尔多夫艺术学院（1973 - 1980年）学习，在此期间，他是长岛市P.S.1工作室的首位驻场艺术家。1993年至1996年，他是新成立的卡尔斯鲁厄设计学院的首位摄影教授。他的作品在世界各地展出，并且有大量关于他作品的专著出版，包括《托马斯·斯特鲁斯：1978 - 2010年摄影作品》（2010年）以及《托马斯·斯特鲁斯：无意识之地》（2012年）。
Ulrich Loock

The irreconcilable coexistence of two nations determines every aspect of reality... No image exists that overcomes this division.

This book brings together sixteen photographs made by Thomas Struth in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2009, 2011 and 2014. Struth continued his practice of creating singular images, each within one of the strictly segregated subject fields he has developed through his career: street photographs, portraits, landscapes and photographs of high technology. Each image carries the enduring complexity and visual distillation of human experience for which Struth is known. Approaching the sheer diversity and quiddity of the inhabited world, he attempts to represent what he has referred to as “a particle of the conflict of the region”, to photograph, fragment by fragment, the conflicted political and social landscape. Ulrich Loock proposes in his essay in the book that this series of images is unified by “strata of antitheses [which] reveal themselves as a matrix running through the work”, as Struth attempts to grasp the circumscribed reality of a region where coexistence has failed, a reality that is inaccessible to photography.

In some ways, this extraordinary body of work is a departure from Struth’s traditional practice: all exposures are related to one single geographical and political reality, as if Struth found every aspect of his photographic vision in one place, and as though Israel and the West Bank were a geographical container for the scope of the human condition.

German photographer Thomas Struth (b. 1954) is internationally recognised for his wide-ranging work, which includes photographs of cities, landscapes, portraits, and architectural interiors. He trained at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1973–80), and, during that time, he was the first artist in residence at the P.S.1 Studios in Long Island City. From 1993 to 1996 he was the first Professor of Photography at the newly founded Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. He has exhibited all over the world, and a large number of monographs have been published of his oeuvre, including Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978–2010 (2010), and Thomas Struth: Unconscious Places (2012).