Thomas Struth

born 1954

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Biography

Thomas Struth (born 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs, family portraits and 1970s black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York City. Struth lives and works in Berlin and New York.

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Artworks

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Thomas Struth The Smith Family, Fife, Scotland 1989

1989
Thomas Struth The Shimada Family, Yamaguchi, Japan 1986

1986
Thomas Struth National Gallery I, London 1989

1989
Thomas Struth Shinju-ku (Skyscrapers), Tokyo 1986

1986
Thomas Struth Hannah Erdrich-Hartmann and Jana-Maria Hartmann, Düsseldorf 1987

1987
Thomas Struth Kyoko and Tomoharu Murakami, Tokyo 1991

1991
Thomas Struth Schlosstrasse, Wittenberg 1991

1991
Thomas Struth Galleria dell’Accademia I, Venice 1992

1992

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Features

Art Term

Dusseldorf School of Photography

The Dusseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in the mid …
Tate Etc

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Edward Platt , Sasha Devas , Elain Harwood and Wilhelm Sasnal

Edward Platt, Sasha Devas, Elain Harwood and Wilhelm Sasnal reflect on a work in the Tate collection
Tate Etc

Books Etc.: Reviews

Thomas Phongsathorn , Matthew Bowman , Alison Dunhill and Charles Danby

Book reviews: Tate Etc. magazine
Tate Papers

Lawrence Alloway’s Spatial Utopia: Contemporary Photography as ‘Horizontal Description’

Shelley Rice

The mobility of art was a concept central to British critic Lawrence Alloway’s understanding of the role of visual imagery …
Essay

Cruel and tender

Carter Ratcliff

What is the place of documentary photography in art? This is the central question raised by Tate's first major exhibition …