Eleonor and Giles Robertson, Edinburgh
Thomas Struth German
Not on view
Struth only photographs people after knowing them for many months or years and collaborates with them on every aspect of how they would like to be seen. For Struth, this elderly Scottish art historian and his wife were like Ur-forms of “the old learned bourgeoisie, [whose] ‘form of being in the world’ we could only imagine in the 19th century.” They have a relationship to art that is intimate, shared, and humanistic—a quality that drew Struth to them and was, according to the artist, significant in the genesis of his Museum Photographs as well.
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