their insistence on the anonymity of the architectural authors, and on the absence of the producers from the sites of production. This artistic gesture had clearly allied itself with a concept of collective subjectivity rather than bourgeois individuality. This principle of excluding the social subject, embodied in photographic figuration, was also precisely what had distinguished the Bechers' work most notably from the spectacular and gro- tesque distortions of subjectivity in New York School photography. "Anonymity" had of course also been the selection principle of Gerhard Richter's photographic iconogra- phy, and Richter had been-along with the Bechers-the other important teacher for Struth's artistic development. Already in 1942, in his introductory essay to the catalog of the exhibition Twentieth Century Partraits, the curator, Monroe Wheeler, noticed this condition, without, how- ever, attempting to understand it, when he writes the following: Even the specialists seem to have often done their best work when there hap- pened to be some intimacy between them and the sitter, or at least some mutual enthusiasm. And many artists refuse to undertake any pre-arranged painting of strangers at all. See Monroe Wheeler, Twentieth-Century Portraits (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942), p. 9. 16. Isabelle Graw has pointed out in her interview with Thomas Struth that the artist had sought out locations in his topographical work that were distinguished by both a considerable historical density and a relative marginality with regard to the most common denominators or currencies of architecture and urban spaces. See Isabelle Graw, "Ortskunde: An Interview with Thomas Struth," Artis (December 1989): 36-40.
their insistence on the anonymity of the architectural authors, and on the absence of the producers from the sites of production. This artistic gesture had clearly allied itself with a concept of collective subjectivity rather than bourgeois individuality. This principle of excluding the social subject, embodied in photographic figuration, was also precisely what had distinguished the Bechers' work most notably from the spectacular and gro- tesque distortions of subjectivity in New York School photography. "Anonymity" had of course also been the selection principle of Gerhard Richter's photographic iconogra- phy, and Richter had been-along with the Bechers-the other important teacher for Struth's artistic development. Already in 1942, in his introductory essay to the catalog of the exhibition Twentieth Century Partraits, the curator, Monroe Wheeler, noticed this condition, without, how- ever, attempting to understand it, when he writes the following: Even the specialists seem to have often done their best work when there hap- pened to be some intimacy between them and the sitter, or at least some mutual enthusiasm. And many artists refuse to undertake any pre-arranged painting of strangers at all. See Monroe Wheeler, Twentieth-Century Portraits (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942), p. 9. 16. Isabelle <br>GRAW指出在她的採訪托馬斯·施特魯特,藝術家曾尋求的是被2個有相當歷史的密度,並就建築與城市空間的最常見的分母或其它貨幣的相對邊緣化區別在他的地形工作地點。見伊莎貝爾GRAW,“Ortskunde:托馬斯·施特魯特在接受”阿蒂斯(1989年12月):36-40。
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