Thomas Ruff

       

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THOMAS RUFF: SCHWARZWALD LANDSCHAFT
VERLAG FüR MODERNE KUNST NüRNBERG
U.S. $45.00 | CAN $45
ISBN: 9783941185517 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 4/30/2010 | Awaiting stock

THOMAS RUFF: SURFACES, DEPTHS
VERLAG FüR MODERNE KUNST NüRNBERG
U.S. $60.00 | CAN $60
ISBN: 9783941185500 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 11/30/2009 | In stock

THOMAS RUFF: JPEGS
APERTURE
U.S. $85.00 | CAN $85
ISBN: 9781597110938 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 5/31/2009 | In stock

THOMAS RUFF: M.D.P.N.
CHARTA
U.S. $34.95 | CAN $34.95
ISBN: 9788881585588 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 1/1/2006 | In stock

    

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THOMAS RUFF: MACHINES
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
U.S. $39.95 | CAN $39.95
ISBN: 9783775714235 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 1/2/2004 | Not available

THOMAS RUFF: 1979 TO THE PRESENT
D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS, INC.
U.S. $75.00 | CAN $75
ISBN: 9781891024726 | TRADE
PUB DATE: 12/2/2003 | Not available

Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff: Surfaces, Depths

Edited by Gerald Matt. Text by Catherine Hug, Douglas Fogle, Kurt W. Forster, Gerald Matt. Interview by Gerald Matt with Thomas Ruff.
Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg

Surfaces, Depths is a representative selection of Thomas Ruff's works, over a period that already spans about 25 years, with projects ranging from portraits and interiors to telescope and space probe pictures and "nightsight" photography. Ruff incorporates an extremely wide range of everyday subjects into his experiments--people, architecture, planets, the Internet--and subjects them to all forms of camera technology, so that his work often seems to embody the history of the art as it develops. Ruff has a particular fascination with photographic techniques that appear to erase or leave out the artist's hand, techniques often designed for military or scientific purposes. In a recent series titled Zycles, for example, Ruff constructs his images with the help of mathematical formulas and computer technology, twisting two-dimensional surfaces into the three-dimensional space of vector graphics. Surfaces and Depths focuses on ten of Ruff's total of 18 projects to address this particular ongoing preoccupation with artistic detachment, and the polarities of surface and depth vision in the construction of images. In doing so, it makes the broadest assessment to date of the oeuvre of this tireless innovator.

THOMAS RUFF: SURFACES, DEPTHS
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Thomas Ruff: Jpegs

Text by Bennett Simpson.
Published by Aperture

How much visual information is needed for image recognition? A pretty small quantity of data will go a long way for the brain and the computer, both of which take shortcuts for the sake of speedy comprehension. In the Jpegs series, German photographer Thomas Ruff exploits this imprecision in digital technology, locating online jpegs and enlarging them until the pixels emerge in a chessboard pattern of near abstraction. A closer look at these images reveals that, in addition to the degeneration of the image into a digital grid, the color and brightness generated by the algorithms of the compression also become visible. Many of Ruff's works in this series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes, or conversely, on scenes of war and nature disturbed by human manipulation--subjects ill suited to disruptive pixelation, and therefore perfect for Ruff's purposes. Taken together, these images constitute an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that also engages the history of landscape painting. A fittingly deluxe and oversize volume, Jpegs is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to this monumental series.

THOMAS RUFF: JPEGS
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Thomas Ruff: M.D.P.N.

Edited by Fabrizio Tramontano. Essays by Giovanni Leoni, Giancarlo Cosenza and Luigi Cosenza. Introduction Giancarlo Cosenza.
Published by Charta

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 visited various other fish markets in Pozzuoli, Milan, Venice, Marseilles, Ostend, Hamburg." This is how Luigi Cosenza (Naples, 1905-1984) describes the genesis of his first project, the Mercato del pesce di Napoli (Fish Market of Naples), built in 1929 and considered the manifesto of the city's rational architecture. This book documents the "M.D.P.N." building in equally rational and elegant images from Germany's renowned Thomas Ruff, beginning with photographs taken in the dazzling light of an early afternoon in September 2002.

THOMAS RUFF: M.D.P.N.
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