Author | Thomas Ruff |
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Pages | 132 |
Signed | No |
ISBN | 9781597110938 |
Publisher | Aperture |
Publishing date | 2009 |
Publishing place | New York |
Language | English |
Edition | First edition |
Binding | Hardcover including dustjacket |
Book condition | New |
Condition description | new book |
Cover condition | New |
Dimensions (cm hxb) | 29,5x39 |
Thomas Ruff is among the most important international photographers to emerge in the last fifteen years, and one of the most enigmatic and prolific of Bernd and Hilla Becher`s former students, a group that includes Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, and Axel Hutte. In 2007, Ruff completed his monumental Jpegs series in which he explores the distribution and reception of images in the digital age. Starting with images he culls primarily from the Web, Ruff enlarges them to a gigantic scale, which exaggerates the pixel patterns until they become sublime geometric displays of color. Many of Ruff`s works in the series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes, and conversely, scenes of war, and nature disturbed by human manipulation. Taken together, these masterworks create an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that also actively engages the history of landscape painting. A fittingly deluxe and oversized volume, Jpegs is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the publication of Ruff`s remarkable series.
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Jpegs is a stunningly beautiful book. Seeing the images in the book has made me re-appreciate the sheer beauty of this body of work.
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