The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

- Thomas Struth

[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by return…

- Thomas Struth

[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not take rapid photographs it …

- Thomas Struth

If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather t…

- Thomas Struth

How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all cr…

- Thomas Struth

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

- Thomas Struth

For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections…

- Thomas Struth

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

- Thomas Struth

I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.

- Thomas Struth