3rd Avenue at 85th Street, New York / Upper East
1978
Gelatin silver print

99th Street at 1st Avenue, New York / Harlem
1978
Gelatin silver print

Hudson Street at Dominick Street, New York / Tribeca
1978
Gelatin silver print

27th Street at Borden Avenue, New York / Queens
1978
Gelatin silver print

Thomas Struth was born 1954 in Geldern, Germany and currently lives and works in Berlin. He is best known for his genre-defying photographs, though he began originally with painting before he enrolled at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf in 1973. Struth has developed his individual photographic practice, often penetrating places of the human imagination in order to scrutinize the landscape of invention, technology, and beyond. Celebrated for his diverse body of work—Unconscious Places, Familienleben (Family Life), Museum Photographs, New Pictures from Paradise and Nature & Politics—Struth continues to advance his vocabulary with each new series, while maintaining the same principles core to his practice.