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Thomas
Ruff:
Jpegs 2006
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Title:
Jpegs 2006
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Period: 2000s
Medium: Photographs, Digital Print, Digital Pigment Print (ditone) on photo paper
Year: ie. circa 2006
Size: height - 48 in, width - 36 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, on verso in pencil
Edition: 8/45
Estimate: from $5,500 to $7,500
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Thomas Ruff. Jpegs 2006. Digital pigment print (ditone) on photo paper, 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm). Edition 8/45. Signed on verso in pencil.
Thomas Ruff (born 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany) is an internationally renowned German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf. Thomas Ruff studied photography from 1977 to 1985 with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy). [Among his fellow students were photographers Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Candida Höfer.] His Ruff names Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Karl Bloßfeld, Stephen Shore and William Eggleston as his main influences. From 2000 to 2005 Ruff taught Photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (the previous "Becher-Class"). During his studies in Düsseldorf, Ruff developed his method of conceptual serial photography. His initial main topic was the interior of German living quarters, with typical features of the 1950s to 1970s (room portraits and design details). This was followed by similar views of buildings and portraits of friends and acquaintances. These are typically shown with emotionless expressions, in very large, passport-style portraits of great detail and high resolution. In a discussion with Philip Pocock (Journal for Contemporary Art, 1993), Ruff mentions a connection between these portraits and the police observation methods in Germany in the 1970s during the German Autumn. Thomas Ruff's building portraits are likewise serial and reclusive, and have been edited digitally to remove obstructing details – a typifying method, which gives the images an exemplary character (Ruff: "This type of building represents more or less the ideology and economy in the West German republic in the past thirty years"). The photographic method was also standardised, regarding light, perspective and location. These series were followed in 1989 by images of the night sky, which were not based on photographs by Ruff. In the years from 1992 to 1995, Ruff produced night images (of exteriors and buildings), with a night vision device, which apparently was deliberately used in analogy to military and espionage applications. In 1994 to 1996 these were followed by Stereoscopy images. A further series in the 1990s consists of "Newspaper Images"; here Ruff again utilised others' pictures in a similar fashion to his night sky images. He used newspaper clippings enlarged without their original subtitles. [During the first Gulf War, Ruff used a night-vision enhancer to render ominous images of the streets of Düsseldorf at night in his Nacht series (1992–96). In 1999, the artist made a series of digitally altered photographs of Modernist architecture by Mies van der Rohe. His series of nudes (1999–2000) are also digitally manipulated images, but here he began with photographs from pornographic websites;] In 2003 Thomas Ruff published a photographic collection of the nudes with a text by the French author Michel Houellebecq. Ruff's images here are based on Internet pornography, which was digitally processed and obscured. [… his Substrat series (2002–03), based on images from Japanese manga cartoons, continued this exploration of digitally altered web-based pictures. For the Machine series (2003), Ruff made colored prints from large-format glass negatives of black-and-white images of vintage industrial machinery from the 1930s and 1940s.] (wikipedia, [guggenheim museum])
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- History & Provenance
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Provenance:
Private Collection
Publications:
Drück, Patricia. Das Bild des Menschen in der Fotografie: die Porträts von Thomas Ruff / Patricia Drück. Berlin: Reimer, c2004.
Ruff, Thomas. Nudes / Thomas Ruff ; with text by Michel Houellebecq. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
Ruff, Thomas. Thomas Ruff: machines = maschinen / edited by Caroline Flosdorff and Veit Görner; texts by Caroline Flosdorff, Veit Görner and Michael Stoeber. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2003.
Ruff, Thomas. Thomas Ruff: Fotografien 1979-heute / herausgegeben von Matthias Winzen ; mit Texten von Per Boym ... [et al.]. Köln : Walter König, 2001.
Ruff, Thomas. Thomas Ruff: l.m.v.d.r.: Haus Lange, Haus Esters, Krefeld / herausgegeben von Julian Heynen. Krefeld : Museum Haus Esters, 2000.
Ruff, Thomas. Thomas Ruff : [Centre national de la photographie, Paris, du 10 septembre au 17 novembre]. Paris : Centre national de la photographie; Arles: Actes Sud, 1997.
Brauchitsch, Boris von. Thomas Ruff / Boris v. Brauchitsch. Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Moderne Kunst, c1992.
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