The 10 Best German Photographers You Should Know

Large-format prints, technical perfection and impersonal vision: these are the characteristics of the German photographers commonly known as the Düsseldorf School of Photography, a group of artists that studied with two masters of 20th century photography, Bernd and Hilla Becher – several of them went on to become some of the most successful contemporary artists in the world. Find out more in our curated list of ten German photographers you should know. See the full article here

The Rhine II’, Andreas Gursky | Tate

Esther Teichmann, from the series ‘Fractal Scars, Salt Water and Tears’ | Courtesy the artist

Axel Hütte, Raucheck, Austria from the series New Mountains, 2011 © Axel Hütte | Courtesy Fondazione Fotografia

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Thomas Struth: photos so complex ‘you could look at them forever’

The celebrated German art photographer talks about his London retrospective, and an ‘odd experience’ with the Queen

For 15 years, Thomas Struth has been practising the gentle martial art of tai chi chuan. In that time, his photography has moved tentatively inwards to address what he calls “some questions of the self”. Only recently, though, did he make a connection between his personal and his artistic journey……this article by Sean O’Hagan   The Observer, Sunday 3 July 2011.….more

Audience 1, Florence 2004, by Thomas Struth.

 

New photographic portrait of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh

A new portrait photograph of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, the first to be commissioned of the two together, has been released by the National Portrait Gallery in London, as part of an exhibition to mark next year’s Diamond Jubilee called The Queen: Art and Image.the exhibition information is

National Portrait Gallery

17 May – 21 October 2012

Porter Gallery

 

Queen Elizabeth II
by Dorothy Wilding, hand-coloured by Beatrice Johnson
1952
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Touring

• National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh
  25 June–18 September 2011 
• National Museums Northern Ireland
  14 October 2011–15 January 2012 
• National Museum Cardiff
  4 February – 29 April 2012

The new portrait by Thomas Struth can be seen on the BBC website and there is a recording of Struth talking about the image

Thomas Struth (born 1954) is a German photographer whose wide-ranging work includes depictions of detailed cityscapes, Asian jungles and family portraits. He is one of Germany’s most widely exhibited and collected fine art photographers. Struth currently lives and works in Berlin…more about Struth

If you want to see more of Struth’s work here is a link to his website