Thomas Struth

born 1954

Thomas Struth, ‘Shinju-ku (Skyscrapers), Tokyo 1986’ 1986 — Shinju-ku (Skyscrapers), Tokyo 1986 1986
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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. Struth currently lives and works in Berlin and New York.

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Artworks

Thomas Struth, ‘Shinju-ku (Skyscrapers), Tokyo 1986’ 1986

Thomas Struth Shinju-ku (Skyscrapers), Tokyo 1986

1986

P77743

Thomas Struth, ‘National Gallery I, London 1989’ 1989

Thomas Struth National Gallery I, London 1989

1989

P77661

Thomas Struth, ‘The Smith Family, Fife, Scotland 1989’ 1989

Thomas Struth The Smith Family, Fife, Scotland 1989

1989

P77750

Thomas Struth, ‘Galleria dell’Accademia I, Venice 1992’ 1992

Thomas Struth Galleria dell’Accademia I, Venice 1992

1992

P77662

Thomas Struth, ‘The Shimada Family, Yamaguchi, Japan 1986’ 1986

Thomas Struth The Shimada Family, Yamaguchi, Japan 1986

1986

P77745

Thomas Struth, ‘Ferdinand-von-Schill-Strasse, Dessau 1991’ 1991

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

1991

P20155

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

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

1987

P77747

Thomas Struth, ‘Bankside 5, London 1995’ 1995

Thomas Struth Bankside 5, London 1995

1995

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Features

Thomas Struth, ‘Shinju-ku (Skyscrapers), Tokyo 1986’ 1986

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 ...

Sir Stanley Spencer, ‘Turk’s Boatyard Cookham’ c.1931

Tate Etc

MicroTate 34

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

Franz West To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work 1972-2008

Tate Etc

Books Etc.: Reviews

Thomas Phongsathorn , Simon Grant1 , Matthew Bowman , Alison Dunhill and Charles Danby

Book reviews: Tate Etc. magazine

Sylvia Sleigh Alloway Portrait of Lawrence Alloway 1965

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 ...

William Eggleston Morton, Mississippi 1969-70 dye transfer print 53 x 66.5 cm

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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 ...

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