Visibly influenced by Erasmus prize-winners Bernd and Hilla Beches cityscapes also document the anonymous and sometimes oppressive industrial architecture of Europe and the United States. Since these sober and rigorous black-and-white streetscapes of the 1970s, Struth has expanded to portraits and his well-known "museum pictures"monumental and often ironic pictures of people visiting museums, churches, and other cultural labyrinths around the globe. His family series depicts German, Japanese, Chinese and Scottish families in all their genetic and cultural splendor. Although concerned more with relationships, social history and contemporary art, these works raise nonetheless many of the same questions of identity and aesthetics as the portraits of August Sander and Eugéne Atget. More recently, Struth has created lush, colourful and large-scale landscapes of jungles and rain forests in Asia and South America.' height= Thoms Struth: Crosby Street, New York (SoHo), 1978
Thoms Struth: Crosby Street, New York (SoHo), 1978