ThomasRuff(1st Edition) Transforming Photography (Spotlight Series) द्वारा Okwui Enwezor, Photography ThomasRuff Hardcover, 76 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा David Zwirner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-64423-017-6, ISBN: 1-64423-017-8
"Over the course of his three-decade career, Thomas Ruff has taken up many approaches to photography in his investigation into the status of the image in contemporary culture.In Thomas Ruff, the artist presents new work that continues his ongoing probe into the history, processes, techniques, and technology of photography. One of the most influential photographers working today, Ruff has redefined photography’s conceptual possibilities, ..."
"The work of Thomas Ruff marks a paradigm change in photography: systematically and on an impressive level of aesthetic quality, the artist has for more than three decades been subjecting the medium of photography to a modernist analysis by introducing several formal innovations. One by one, Ruff has teased out basic parameters of the medium and their aesthetic interdependencies, taking photography beyond well-trodden paths. It's all the ..."
"Examine the photographic series of celebrated contemporary photographer Thomas Ruff.Thomas Ruff is one of the most important contemporary German photographers living today. Studying under Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ruff experimented with large-format printing. This comprehensive book focuses on his photographic series from the past twenty years. These series are based on found photographs from a variety of sources. The source materials ran ..."
"Technological processes blur the boundaries between painting, photography, and conceptual art - a book on the innovative pictorial inventions of the 21st century."The Technological Hand" examines the influence of technological strategies of image finding on contemporary art. The outlined connections to the history of photography, painting, and Conceptual Art create a new model for understanding pictorial culture in the beginning 21st ce ..."
"Over the past few decades, Thomas Ruff (born 1958) has explored new technologies in photography to interrogate how images are read in the age of spectacle and media dissemination. Among the most prolific members of the Dusseldorf School, Ruff effectively set aside conventional photography in 1989 to work with altered and appropriated imagery, using military technology, astrophysics and digital reproduction to explore and define the limi ..."
"Over the course of his 30-year career, Thomas Ruff (born 1958) has approached every genre of photography and coolly reinvented it.One of the greatest artists to use photography in the 21st century, Ruff came of age in the 1980s alongside Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, in what was to become known as the Düsseldorf School.Creating photographic images on the scale of history painting but with a cool hyperrealism, Ruff mov ..."
ThomasRuff(1st Edition) Editions 1988–2014: Catalogue Raisonné द्वारा Jorg Schellmann, ThomasRuff, Thomas Weski, Hatje Cantz Hardcover, 180 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2015 द्वारा Hatje Cantz Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-3859-0, ISBN: 3-7757-3859-2
"The numerous photographic series of Thomas Ruff (born 1958) are consistently compelling. In larger-than-life-sized portraits we encounter the intent gazes of young adults. Sterile building facades serve as a commentary on the misery of urban sprawl. Pixelated nudes from pornographic websites render important details almost indecipherable while underscoring the power of these images. In exhibitions the photographer shows large-scale prin ..."
"The new Spanish photography magazine "Matador "offers its readers the excitement of encountering new photography in splendid large format, with impressive high-quality spreads from great photographers, and serious commentary and writings from the best international photography critics working today. Available for the first time in the U.S., "Matador "makes Barcelona the subject of its latest issue. Barcelona in many ways has come to sym ..."
"Throughout the 1980s and 90s, visionary Geneva gallerist Pierre Huber seems to have had a crystal ball for what's destined to last in contemporary art. And when he's gazed into it in amassing his private collection, he's seen photography, contemporary Chinese art, abstract painting, and other art forms. This catalogue, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Musae cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, gives others a glimpse of wh ..."
"An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 79 pages; Physical desc. : 79 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. Published to accompany an exhibition held at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 12 June-17 October, 2004. Text in English and German. Subject: Pfeiffer, Paul (1966-) --Exhibition ..."
"How does a museum build up its own collection? How do the choices made by an institution, and the eventual content of its collection, compare to that of a private collection? These questions and many more about the nature of art collecting are addressed in Imagine You Are Standing here in Front of Me, an attractive, generously illustrated overview of the Caldic Collectie, the sizeable, kaleidoscopic, and willfully accumulated private co ..."
"Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Günter Förg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jörg Sasse, "XL-Photography" presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum ..."
"In recent decades, the border areas between photography and film have emerged as an important field of contemporary photographic art. Well-known practitioners include the American artist Cindy Sherman with her "Film Stills," a series of black-and-white self-portraits evoking film stills from the 1940s and 1950s both in form and content, and the Australian Sam Taylor-Wood, whose photographic panoramas-sometimes more than 30 feet long-for ..."
"Architecture has always been a natural subject matter for photographers, but for most of the twentieth century the practice of architectural photography has been a professional endeavor--anonymous photographs taken for clients for specific, commercial reasons. This book concerns itself with another aspect of the phenomenon: the photography of architecture as an art practice. It considers the work of seven contemporary photographers who ..."
ThomasRuff Interieurs द्वारा Thomas Bernhard, Martin Germann, ThomasRuff Hardcover, 108 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2017 द्वारा Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig ISBN-13: 978-3-96098-079-7, ISBN: 3-96098-079-5
"Gebundenes BuchDie Publikation zeigt Thomas Ruffs Serie der 'Interieurs', entstanden während seiner Studienzeit an der Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie. Die meisten Bilder wurden im Schwarzwald in den Wohnungen von Verwandten oder Eltern seiner Klassenkameraden aufgenommen. Einzelne Elemente eines Raumes werden mit so viel Einfachheit und Distanz wie möglich gezeigt und fangen die Stimmung und den Charakter des gesamten Raumes ein ohne zusätz ..."
"Bernd und Hilla Becher werden im Herbst dieses Jahres mit dem Erasmuspreis, der wohl bedeutendsten Auszeichnung, die in Europa vergeben wird, geehrt. Die Publikation feiert das Ereignis in Form einer Festschrift, die das photographische Werk von Bernd und Hilla Becher auf zwei Ebenen würdigt: mit repräsentativen Bildbeispielen, vor allem aber in Statements, Textbeiträgen und Interviews zur Arbeit und zum Leben der Bechers im Dienste der ..."
"2012 Two books under a single cover; 3D images included within and on bellyband, with 3D glasses included Essay by Geoff Dyer; Interview with Thomas Ruff and Hans Ulrich Obrist 10 1/4 × 14 1/4 inches (26 × 36.2 cm) Designed by Goto Design, New York; Printed by The Avery Group at Shapco Printing, Minneapolis, MN Weight: 1 lb. 9 oz."
""German photo artist Thomas Ruff is a master of conceptual serial photography. He made a name for himself in the early eighties with oversized, superrealistic color portraits of his artist friends and as a pioneer of the Diasec process used to mount photographic images onto acrylic glass, thereby obviating frames, liberating photography from the print gallery and paving the way to the "grand gallery" museum walls for large-format photos ..."
"Description: "Shortly after graduating in Bridge and Road Engineering in 1929 and being appointed to the rank of reserve lieutenant, I took a look around my city. There were no patterns to follow--only examples to imitate. The grand extravagant projects were the monopoly of the regime of arrogance and favoritism. A modern fish market was needed to replace the grubby "pietra del pesce" on Via Marina. I studied the problem on the spot and ..."
"For his most recent cycle of works, photographer-artist Thomas Ruff digitally manipulated glass negatives from the 1930s which he had found in the photo archive of a machine and tool factory. This elegantly bound publication presents his machine pictures for the first time in book form.nnThe art photographer Thomas Ruff-the successor to Bernd and Hilla Becher, his teachers at the Kunstakademie in D?sseldorf-was recently the subject of m ..."