Click here to read “DEPTH OF FIELD: Thomas Struth’s way of seeing” by Janet Malcolm from The New Yorker on September 26, 2011.
Thomas Struth’s large-scale portrait of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, taken at Windsor Castle, was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London, for an exhibition of paintings and photographs of the Queen commemorating her Diamond Jubilee, next year. When Struth was approached, he wondered, “Would I be able to say something new about people like this?”