Mais-Acker Nach der Ernte n°34, Winterthur
Thomas Struth's large-scale chromogenic print captures a harvested cornfield in Winterthur, Switzerland, with his characteristic precise and detached documentary gaze. The barren, stubbled rows of cut maize stalks stretch across the composition, creating a rhythmic pattern that reflects Struth's deep interest in the relationship between human activity and the natural landscape. The work's cool, neutral palette and meticulous detail exemplify his ability to transform an ordinary agricultural scene into a contemplative study of order, labor, and the passage of time.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Photographs
April 4, 2016
Artists in conversation
Andreas Gursky
German · b. 1955
Gursky similarly produces large scale chromogenic prints of landscapes and human altered environments with a detached, analytical precision that transforms mundane subjects into contemplative visual studies of pattern and repetition.
Bernd Becher
German · b. 1931
As Struth's teacher at the Düsseldorf Academy, Becher pioneered the same typological documentary approach with neutral tones and rigorous objectivity when photographing industrial and rural landscapes shaped by human activity.
Axel Hütte
German · b. 1951
Hütte creates large format photographs of rural and natural landscapes with the same cool detachment, muted palette, and contemplative stillness found in this harvested cornfield, inviting quiet meditation on ordinary yet deeply considered scenery.
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