Portrait of a Citizen

 

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Image source: A Dialogue About Recent American and European Photography. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1991.

Thomas Struth

Nationality: German

Training: Düsseldorf Academy; studied under Gerhard Richter, Peter Kleeman and Bernd Becher

Peers: Thomas Ruff; Andreas Gursky

Group: photography; Documentary photography; 20th century; 21st century

Provenance: purchased from Alan Schwartz; Marion Goodman Gallery; the artist

Subject: urban space; portraits; relationship between viewer and art; flower studies



Other Works in the Vancouver Art Gallery Collection

Thomas Struth
Vegetable Market, Wuhan, 1995
chromogenic print on Plexiglas
Vancouver Art Gallery Major Purchase and Acquisition Funds
VAG 2002.27.18

Thomas Struth
Giles Robertson (Smiling), Edinburgh, 1987
silver gelatin print on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Major Purchase and Acquisition Funds
VAG 2002.27.23

Thomas Struth
Giulia Zorzetti With a Painting by Francesco di Mura, Naples, 1989
chromogenic print on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Major Purchase and Acquisition Funds
VAG 2002.27.21

Thomas Struth
Gerhard Richter, 1993
chromogenic print on Plexiglas
Vancouver Art Gallery Major Purchase and Acquisition Funds
VAG 2002.27.19

Thomas Struth
Via Allesandro Specci, Rome, 1984
silver gelatin print on paper
Gift of Alison and Alan Schwartz
VAG 2003.7.36