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German photographer Struth is among the artists from the celebrated D sseldorf School who studied under conceptualists Bernd and Hilla Becher in the 1970s and 1980s. Their rigid, deadpan style of uniform picture making proved a rich starting point, and in maturity Struth's work excavates the nature of photography itself. Three new titles encapsulate the work of this important midcareer artist. Portraits, published on the occasion of Struth's one-man exhibition at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, contains the artist's psychologically loaded frontal images of his human subjects. In the words of curator Weski, Struth's camera is applied like "a two-way mirror," reflecting both the photographer and his...Log In or Sign Up to Read More