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Portrait Art Peers into the Souls of Subjects», Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 May, 1984.
Struth uses the mural - scale prints that have become a trope in contemporary
art, not least in Germany — he is a
peer of Thomas Ruff and Andreas Gursky, having graduated from the same Kunstakademie Düsseldorf program taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher — and the size and deep color of his images are crucial to their effect: In the museum work in particular (Struth also makes streetscapes and
portraits),