Thomas Rusch

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Thomas Rusch (born October 10, 1962 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German photographer who lives in Berlin, Hamburg and Paris.

life and work

After school, Thomas Rusch went to Hamburg in 1981 , where he trained as a photographer. His first publication was in 1986 a series of portraits for the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in the weekly Stern . This was followed by a long-term collaboration in which Thomas Rusch photographed reports, covers and portraits for Stern. From the end of the eighties, his portraits of famous personalities from culture and politics were published in various magazines. a. in Zeitmagazin , Der Spiegel , Max , GQ . At the same time, numerous award-winning exhibition projects such as “Paradise Lost”, “Cirque O”, “Die Ecke” and more were created.

From the late nineties, Thomas Rusch lived in Paris as a portrait, beauty and advertising photographer. He published series in indie magazines such as Soon, Tank or Oyster as well as in numerous international fashion and lifestyle magazines, photographed advertising campaigns (including for Ray Ban, Beck's, Seat, ZDF) and developed his artistic work further in parallel.

Thomas Rusch has been commuting between Hamburg, Paris and Berlin since 2006. He still works as a portrait and advertising photographer, but increasingly on freelance projects that mostly deal with sexuality, images of women and fetishism . Thomas Rusch examines their ambivalent qualities - between private and public, art and commerce - in his photographs and thus moves in the field of tension between emphasized naturalness and idealized surface. His last exhibitions dealt with the subject of masks (“Behind”, portraits of faces, some of which were made up beyond recognition) and skin (“A Fleur de peau”, various series on the subject of skin).

Exhibitions

  • 2014 A Fleur de Peau, Bettina von Arnim Gallery, Paris
  • 2013 Bettina von Arnim Gallery, Paris
  • 2010 Behind, Stageback Gallery, Shanghai
  • 2009 Homage to Irving Penn, Hiltawsky Gallery, Hamburg / Berlin
  • 2008 Play, Galerie Chappe, Paris
  • 2002 The Aesthetics of Desires, Photo Museum Leipzig
  • 2002 Icon, Aplanat Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2001 Jolis Momes, Acte 2, Paris
  • 2000 The Aesthetics of Desires, Leipzig Photo Museum
  • 1996 Erotic in Germany, Museum for Art and Industry , Hamburg
  • 1995–2012 Bildermode - fashion pictures. German fashion photographs from 1945 to 1995. Curated by FC Gundlach , with stations in New York, Milan, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Lisbon, etc. a.
  • 1995 The Corner, Image-Kastannus Oy, Helsinki
  • 1994 Zeitgeist Becomes Form, Goethe Institute, New York
  • 1993 Paradise Lost, Gasteig Cultural Center, Munich
  • 1993 Alexandra S., German Photo Days, Frankfurt
  • 1992 International Salon for Photography + Design, Cologne
  • 1992 Die Ecke, Galerie Rahmel - 17 Subway Stations, Cologne
  • 1992 Paradise Lost, PPS Galerie FC Gundlach, Sheila Metzner + Thomas Rusch, Hamburg
  • 1992 Paradise Lost, Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy
  • 1991 Fashion Worlds, Museum of Art and Industry, Hamburg
  • 1990 Paradise Lost, Museum House of Painters, Moscow
  • 1987 Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Grauwert Galerie, Hamburg

Awards

  • 4 × Art Directors Club , Germany
  • Art Directors Club of Europe
  • 2008 SPD Award, New York
  • 2006 FWA Red Dot Award
  • 2004 Canon ProFashional Photo Award
  • 1992 Kodak Portrait Award
  • 1991, 1987 Kodak European Award

Collections

  • Second Bert Hartkamp collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Collection FC Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany
  • Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, Germany
  • FotoMuseum, Helsinki, Finland
  • Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy

literature

  • 2010 Thomas Rusch. The artificial face - mask and masquerade . In: Eyemazing, Issue 3, 2010.
  • 2010 Blink Magazine. Contemporary Photography . No. 5. ISBN 978-89-965709-5-0
  • 2010 Blink Magazine. Contemporary Photography . No. 1
  • 2006 All Allure , Ed. Robert Klanten . Berlin, Die Gestalten Verlag , ISBN 3-89955-100-1
  • 2002 Thomas Rusch - Icon , with texts by Hellmuth Karasek and Wolfgang Behnken, Hamburg, Aplanat Edition, ISBN 3-922805-77-9
  • 1997 Surrealities , ed. Andreas Peyerl, Robert Klanten. Berlin, Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN 3-931126-03-X
  • 1995 Bildermode - fashion pictures. German fashion photographs from 1945 to 1995 , edited by Wulf Herzogenrath , with texts by FC Gundlach, K. Honnef, E. Kaufold. Berlin, Institute for Foreign Relations / IFA.
  • 1992 Thomas Rusch - Paradise Lost , Text: Shuhei Takahashi. Tokyo, Treville, ISBN 4-8457-0724-1
  • 1988 symphonies in mansions and barns. The Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , edited by Werner Burkhardt et al., Hamburg, Rasch and Röhring Verlag, ISBN 3-89136-197-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Karasek, W. Behnken (2002). Thomas Rusch - Icon . Aplanat Edition, Hamburg.
  2. ↑ Takahashi, Shuhei (1992). Paradise Lost . Treville, Tokyo.
  3. ^ Najjar, Sherin (2010). Thomas Rusch. The artificial face - mask and masquerade . Eyemazing Magazine, No. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Rusch, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau