Diagonal
1996 · Silver dye bleach prints
30 × 20" (76.2 × 50.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Thomas Florschuetz
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11
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New Photography 5: Vincent Borrelli, Thomas Florschuetz, Mike Mandel
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989–1990
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Thomas Florschuetz is a German photographer whose practice interrogates how photography fragments and reconstructs spatial perception through close examination of architectural detail and material surface. Working in both color and black-and-white, his images collapse the distinction between abstraction and representation, treating the photographic plane itself as subject matter. His investigations of light, texture, and compositional rupture resist conventional landscape or documentary reading.
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