Thomas Struth
Born in 1954 · Germany
Looking at places, then at those who look at them.
The story
Thomas Struth began with urban views and developed family portraits, museum scenes and photographs of technological spaces. Trained in Düsseldorf, he maintains an attention to the organisation of the frame and relationships between people. His Museum Photographs stage a double gaze: that of visitors looking at artworks and that of the viewer looking at the photograph.
Understanding the work
Follow the lines of a building, then the positions of people. In a museum, compare gestures of looking with the compositions of the artworks visible in the frame.
Key works and series
Unconscious Places; Museum Photographs; family portraits; technological spaces.
Sources & further exploration
Works in collections.
10 recordsPhotographs to explore on museum and library websites, with titles, dates and processes. Each link opens the collection record and its image where one is available.
- MoMA · 1989
Avenue du Devin du Village, Geneva (Avenue du Devin du Village, Genf)
Gelatin silver print
