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...The Bechers’ students [such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer] kind of all fit that model. Paul Graham is in that category....
...If Thomas Demand appears to be one inspiration, the other is the German photographer Andreas Gursky....
..., Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth....
...What he is referring to is the effect he and his fellow Becher students — not only Gursky but, notably, Thomas Struth, Candida Hofer and Axel Hütte — had on the way photographs were shown....
...Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Candida Höfer, became collectively known as the “Becher Schule”, or “Düsseldorf School”....
...To complete the arc of associations are images from the “Velvet Years” series by American grandee Stephen Shore, who also enjoyed a close relationship with the Bechers....
...In the next 20 years his course produced a group of contemporary photographic artists that includes Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Candida Höfer....
...Only Thomas Struth among the Bechers’ senior direct pupils has shown much variety of interest and manner – and he is the greater photographer for it....
...Teaching at Düsseldorf, the Bechers shaped the vision of the 21st-century’s top-selling artists including Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff, who co-opt documentary approaches into...
..., and masterpieces of modern alienation by their students Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth....
...Just as Karl Blossfeldt found awe in the endless variety of plants, the Bechers saw the beauty in the archaeology of production....
...Beginning with the Bechers’ “Water Towers” and “Coal Tipple”, it includes Candida Höfer’s depopulated library and museum interiors, Thomas Ruff’s blurry Richter-like nudes sourced from internet porn sites...
...It’s done with great knowingness: a round gas-holder, so familiar from the typologies of the Bechers, is everything the Becher studies were not: alone, golden, and seen from an angle on a bright sunny day...
...Under the Bechers a new “Düsseldorf school” developed around a core group of graduates who are now major figures in contemporary art – Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Axel Hütte and Candida Höfer...
...In the 1980s, Kürten studied at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, then the stronghold of conceptual photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher....
...Thomas Struth’s public lecture at Oxford will take place on May 2, www.humanities.ox.ac.uk...
...Thomas Struth tells me that printing machines can’t cope with anything wider than 1.83 meters: this print needs twice that....
...Thomas Struth’s photographs began to be widely recognised internationally at the beginning of the 1990s....
...They are a key link between the prewar photographic avant-garde and the potent late 20th-century photographic genre of architectonic alienation – Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Candida Hofer were all Becher...
...Five new galleries dedicated to the medium, with an emphasis on German contemporaries such as Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and Bernd and Hilla Becher are now open; at their core is a superb showcase of the...
...The story is typical of the quirky narratives that inspire the work of Thomas Demand....
...Thomas Klopf, chief executive of Natter, a maker of hydraulic and automotive parts nestled in the shadow of the futuristic Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, is candid about the downturn....
...A wealth of material here could have fleshed out this account, even though key staging posts – Bill Brandt, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky – are inexplicably, ludicrously, omitted....
...English entries include the fragile but talented Eurotrek, a winner over the National fences in the Becher Chase....
...You get nothing more from this show than you do from commercial galleries selling Thomas Demand’s work. ‘Thomas Demand’ is at the Serpentine Gallery in London until August 20. Tel 20 7402 6075...
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