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Thomas Struth’s Disneyland


*Pond, Anaheim California,* 2013. Image courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.

It’s not the magical Disney of Saving Mr. Banks, nor the depraved nightmare in artist Paul McCarthy’s fall show at the Park Avenue Armory. Rather, in a new series of photos taken at Disneyland by the German photographer scrutinizes the way the products of our imagination materialize in the real world. For him Disneyland, especially, is a place that has ignited and shaped human fantasy worldwide. Shown alongside photographs of other sites of collective creation (a surgical robot at Georgia Tech, a medical lab in Berlin), the show offers a behind-the scenes tour of human enterprise that not even a membership to Club 33 will get you.

“Thomas Struth” is on view through February 22, 2014, at Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 W. 57th St in New York.

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Hot Rolling Mill, ThyssenKrupp Steel, Duisburg, 2010. Image courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.

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Pond, Anaheim California, 2013. Image courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.

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Cinema, Anaheim, California, 2013. Image courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.

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Ride, Anaheim, California, 2013. Image courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.

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Golems Playground, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, 2013. Image courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.

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Measuring, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Berlin, 2012. Image courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.