The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
Thomas StruthIf I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.
Thomas Struth[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.
Thomas StruthI wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.
Thomas Struth