Thomas Struth

born 1954

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Biography

Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs series, family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s. Struth lives and works in Berlin and New York.

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Artworks

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Thomas Struth The Shimada Family, Yamaguchi, Japan 1986

1986
Thomas Struth The Smith Family, Fife, Scotland 1989

1989
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 Galleria dell’Accademia I, Venice 1992

1992
Thomas Struth Ferdinand-von-Schill-Strasse, Dessau 1991

1991

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Features

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Dusseldorf School of Photography

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Book reviews: Tate Etc. magazine
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The mobility of art was a concept central to British critic Lawrence Alloway’s understanding of the role of visual imagery …
Essay

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Carter Ratcliff

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