Thomas Struth
1977 - 2002
Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, MOMA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, 2002
Douglas Eklund, Ann Goldstein, Maria Morris Hambourg, Charles Wylie
pages 190
first edition
dimensions 30.5 × 32.5 cm, hardcover with jacket
language English
ISBN 0-300-09360-8
pages 190
first edition
dimensions 30.5 × 32.5 cm, hardcover with jacket
language English
ISBN 0-300-09360-8
ARTISTS
Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth 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 trained at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1973 until 1980 where he initially studied painting under Peter Kleemann and, from 1974, Gerhard Richter. Increasingly drawn to photography and with Richter's support, Struth joined the first year of the new photography class run by Bernd and Hilla Becher. Struth lives and works in Berlin and New York.
Thomas Struth 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 trained at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1973 until 1980 where he initially studied painting under Peter Kleemann and, from 1974, Gerhard Richter. Increasingly drawn to photography and with Richter's support, Struth joined the first year of the new photography class run by Bernd and Hilla Becher. Struth lives and works in Berlin and New York.