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Frances Morris to depart Tate Director of Tate Modern to step down in April 2023

In 2010, the acclaimed art photographer Thomas Struth went to Windsor Castle and took a picture of the Queen of England and the Duke of Edinburgh for an exhibition celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. “When the National Portrait Gallery called and said that in their eyes I was the best person to do the portrait, I was quite shocked,” Struth said. It was not the kind of photography he usually did—but he found himself saying yes. “My immediate reaction was ‘What can I possibly do that’s not only affirmative but would include a message from me? Would I be able to say something new about people like this?’ ” Revisit Janet Malcolm on the portrait he took, and the photographer’s other work: http://nyer.cm/6bxJu1c