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Thomas Struth (German, b.1954)
LOT ID: 34511
Tokyo, 1999

Chromogenic Print (C-print)
7.1 х 5 in. (18.03 x 12.7 cm.)
Signed, titled and numbered on verso (see illustrations)
Edition 41/200
Lot description
C-print
7.1 x 5 in. (18 x 12.7 cm)
Signed, titled, and numbered on verso.

Thomas Struth's (b. 1954) images of cities confront the viewer with an architectural scenery that is all but devoid of people.

Since the late seventies, Thomas Struth has been known for his architectural and urban photographs, portraits, landscapes, and museum interiors. Trained first in painting, he took up photography in 1974 while a student at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts under Gerhard Richter (1974), and later, Bernd and Hilla Becher (1976). First photographing people in the streets of Dusseldorf, and other cities, from 1974 to 1977, he later drew on this experience in an early body of work, the black & white street and city scapes, which began in 1977. Early portraits of friends, which began in 1983, launched a series of psychologically oriented family portraits in 1986.

Struth's work is characterized by an oblique vantage point and a clarity and neutrality which permits the universal subject to speak.
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    photographs, chromogenic print (c-print)
    (H 7.1, W 5) in.
    (18.0 x 12.7) cm.
    Ed. 200
    Sold for: US$1,150 €
    Thursday, July 14, 2011
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  • Thomas Struth

    Tokyo
    photographs, chromogenic print (c-print)
    (H 4.7, W 6.7) in.
    (11.9 x 17.0) cm.
    Ed. 33 and 36 of 200
    Sold for: US$1,150 €
    Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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  • Thomas Struth

    Zhejiang Zhong Lu, Shanghai
    c-print
    (H 17.2, W 22.0) in.
    (43.8 x 55.9) cm.
    Ed. ed.20
    Sold for: US$3,641 €
    Saturday, June 05, 2010
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  • Thomas Struth

    Rose, Winterthur
    photograph
    (H 15.2, W 19.8) in.
    (38.7 x 50.2) cm.
    Ed. ed.40
    Sold for: US$2,083 €
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  • Thomas Struth

    Museo del Prado Rm 12, Madrid
    c-print
    (H 8.5, W 11.0) in.
    (21.6 x 27.9) cm.
    Ed. 88/100
    Sold for: US$1,750 €
    Saturday, March 06, 2010
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