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Naples and Rome

In 1988 Struth returned to live and work in Italy for three months. He stayed in Naples and in Rome, where he photographed large apartment blocks built in the 1950s and 1960s which he had noticed during his earlier time in the city. He also made a portrait of the Messina family.

Reflecting on the experience of photographing within the dense forest of structures and signs in Tokyo, he concentrated in Naples on the accumulation of living spaces in the city, as well as making a number of photographs that integrated religious and secular buildings. Whilst a few of the Naples photographs have affinities to Struth’s earlier street photographs, the organising device of the central perspective was generally left behind in favour of more complex pictures of the urban fabric.

In Naples, Struth shared an apartment with Janice Guy and Giulia Zorzetti, a restorer of old paintings. On occasions, Struth went with Zorzetti to look at the paintings being restored. He recalls that the visits “offered a very thought-provoking encounter with the medium I had given up a decade ago. Restorers get closer to a painting than anyone has ever been since the work was originally painted. They have an intimate proximity with the manufacture of the painting, with the way the material had been manoeuvred on the surface of the canvas or wall.” On the last day of his stay in Naples, Struth made the photograph of Zorzetti and three of her colleagues, The Restorers in San Lorenzo Maggiore.

A year later, he returned to Naples. In a deconsecrated church turned into a temporary studio, Zorzetti and her team were restoring a large-scale canvas by the 18th-century Neapolitan painter Francesco de Mura (Naples, 1696–1782) that they had recently rediscovered. The restorer had set up her studio on the altar, in the space formerly reserved for religious ritual. Struth photographed what became his largest-scale work to date, Giulia Zorzetti with a Painting by Francesco de Mura.


Vico dei Monti
Naples
1988

Silver gelatin print
Cat. 2851
84,0 x 66,0 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ, KND, WGL, MSP


Via del Parco Margherita
Naples 1988


Silver gelatin print
Cat. 2861
84,0 x 66,0 cm

EXHIBITED: WGL, MSP


Via Vannella Gaetani
Naples
1988

Silver gelatin print
Cat. 2871
84,0 x 66,0 cm

EXHIBITED: KND, MSP


Corso Vittorio Emanuele
Naples
1989

Silver gelatin print
Cat. 3021
72,0 x 84,0 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ, KND, MSP

Restorers in San Lorenzo Maggiore
Naples
1988

Chromogenic print
Cat. 3711
119,0 x 159,5 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ
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