DEMAND, Thomas

About German photo artist Thomas DEMAND (b.1964, in Munich)

Thomas DEMAND is an artist who recreates crime scene and press photographs in paper, true to detail, and then photographs them. After the destruction of the model, these 'second' photographs are then exhibited as life-size photographs, which allow entry into the pictorial space through their deep hanging. The pictorial content remains so striking that, if the photographic model is known, the subject can be clearly identified. He does not see himself as a photographer, although this is his medium of exhibition. At the same time, he is also not exclusively a model maker, since the focus of his artistic work is on photographic reproduction, so that he is best understood as a reproducer of the media or as an illusionist.

Photo books by Thomas DEMAND

'Große Illusionen' (1999, mit Andreas GURSKY & Ed RUSCHA); 'The Conversation Series' (2007, with Hans Ulrich Obrist); 'Nationalgalerie' (2009); 'Thomas Demand and the Nationalgalerie. A Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist' (2009); 'La Carte d'après nature' (2010); 'Model studies' (2011); 'Executive: From Poll to Presidency' (2012); 'The Dailies' (2012, 2015); 'Blossom' (2015); 'The Complete Papers' (2018, 2019); 'House of Card' (2020); 'Made Realities' (2021, together with works by Philip-Lorca DiCORCIA, Andreas GURSKY, Jeff WALL); 'Mundo de Papel' (2022); 'Stutter of History' (2022, frnech edition: 2023)

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