Research Catalog

Title

Thomas Ruff / edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Falk Wolf ; with contributions by Martina Dobbe, Susanne Holschbach, Falk Wolf.

Author

Ruff, Thomas, 1958-

Publication

• Düsseldorf : Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen ; München ; London ; New York : Prestel Publishing, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gaensheimer, Susanne
• Wolf, Falk
• Dobbe, Martina
• Holschbach, Susanne
• Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), host institution.

Description

240 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm +

Summary

• "This catalog has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Thomas Ruff, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 12.09.2020-7.2.2021"--Colophon.
• "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 range from early nineteenth century photography to machinemade photographs of distant planets, from post-war press photos to propaganda images from the People's Republic of China, and from Internet pornography to computer generated photograms. In each series, Ruff explores the historical and technical conditions of photography by examining these highly varied pictorial worlds. At the same time, he takes into consideration the afterlife of the images in archives, databases, and on the Internet, thus formulating highly complex perspectives on the photographic medium and the world that has already been photographed"--Publisher's website.

Uniform Title

Photographs. Selections

Alternative Title

Photographs.

Subject

• Ruff, Thomas, 1958- > Exhibitions
• Ruff, Thomas, 1958-
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• A pair of paper viewing glasses (right in green, left in red) included.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• German and English.

Contents

Greeting -- Foreword -- Scaling, superimposing, and staying in motion / Falk Wolf -- Flâneur, researcher, image producer: Thomas Ruff and the photographic archive / Susanne Holschbach -- Questions regarding Thomas Ruff's archiveology / Martina Dobbe -- Exhibited works : Zeitungsfotos ; press++ ; nudes ; jpeg ; Tableaux chinois ; Fotogramme ; Tripe ; Negative ; m.n.o.p. ; w.g.l. ; 3D-ma.r.s. ; Maschinen ; flower.s ; Retuschen -- Appendix.

Call Number

JQG 21-598

ISBN

• 3791359800
• 9783791359809

LCCN

• 2020934397
• 9783791359809

OCLC

1137823858

Author

Ruff, Thomas, 1958- photographer.

Title

Thomas Ruff / edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Falk Wolf ; with contributions by Martina Dobbe, Susanne Holschbach, Falk Wolf.

Publisher

Düsseldorf : Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen ; München ; London ; New York : Prestel Publishing, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

German and English.

Added Author

Gaensheimer, Susanne, editor.

Wolf, Falk, editor, contributor.

Dobbe, Martina, contributor.

Holschbach, Susanne, contributor.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), host institution.

Other Form:

9783941773561 museum edition

Other Standard Identifier

9783791359809

Research Call Number

JQG 21-598