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We’re celebrating World Photography Day with Thomas Struth’s “Pergamon Museum I, Berlin,” on view in Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection!

Following a period living in Naples and Rome in the late 1980s,German photographer Thomas Struth began to document museumgoers around the world encountering art historical masterworks. It was a premise in which the artist saw “the potential for including a marriage of a contemporary moment and a historical moment in one photographic place.” Most images from the series were candid, but this view from within Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, which houses reconstructions of monumental buildings from antiquity, was staged by the photographer. 

(Chromogenic print face-mounted on acrylic, 2001)