Struth is a painstaking witness and a shrewd inquistor of the world

摘要

Midway through this excellent show is a generous selection of the black-and-white cityscapes that photographer Thomas Struth made his name with in the 1980s. Taken when the streets were empty, whether in Dusseldorf, Brussels or New York, they show ensembles of buildings in which there is no dominant focus. Though there's a glimpse of the World Trade Center in one of them, and a corner of Rome's popular Campo dei Fiori in another, they usually depict quite unspectacular sites that few people would think were destinations.