Museum Photographs series

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Museum Photographs series is a body of large-scale color photographs by Thomas Struth that depict visitors observing artworks in major museums, exploring the relationship between art, space, and spectatorship.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork series
photographic series
aim to explore the relationship between art, space, and spectatorship
to record how people behave in museums
concept collective viewing
cultural tourism
documentation of social behavior in museums
gaze
institutional critique
countryOfOrigin Germany
creator Thomas Struth
depicts architectural spaces of museums
famous canonical artworks
groups of people observing art
exhibitedAt Hamburger Kunsthalle
Kunsthaus Zürich
Marian Goodman Gallery
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate Modern
genre color photography
contemporary photography
hasPart photographs of visitors in front of Old Master paintings
photographs of visitors in sculpture galleries
“Audience” (Louvre) photographs
hasQuality frontally composed
high detail
large scale
inception 1989
influencedBy New Topographics
conceptual art
documentary photography
languageOfWorkOrName none (visual artwork)
locationDepicted Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence
Louvre Museum
Museo del Prado
linked to: Prado Museum

National Gallery, London
linked to: National Gallery

Uffizi Gallery
mainSubject artworks in museums
museum interiors
museum visitors
public space of the museum
relationship between viewer and artwork
spectatorship
movement contemporary art
notableWorkOf Thomas Struth
partOf Thomas Struth’s photographic oeuvre
publisher various contemporary art galleries
technique C-print
large-scale color photography

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Thomas Struth notableWork Museum Photographs series
Thomas Struth hasSeries Museum Photographs
linked to: Museum Photographs series
Museum Photographs series hasPart “Audience” (Louvre) photographs
linked to: Museum Photographs series
Family Portraits series relatedWork Museum Photographs series