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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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Bennett Simpson is associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and a widely published critic. He recently curated exhibitions of the work of Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Roe Ethridge, Dan Graham, and Lisa Lipinski.

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  • PublisherAperture
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 1597110930
  • ISBN 13 9781597110938
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages132
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New condition hardcover, 1st edition, published by Aperture in 2009. A deluxe production and over-sized volume (15 1/2 x 11 1/2").No dust jacket as issued. Thomas Ruff might be one of the most creative and certainly inventive photographers of our time and jpegs is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the publication of Ruff s remarkable series. "In 2007, Ruff completed his monumental jpegs series in which he explored the distribution and reception of images in the digital age. Starting with images he culled primarily from the Web, Ruff enlarged 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. ."david zwirner, et al. Publisher 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. Seller Inventory # 263

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition, Special Edition. First printing, with full number line. A new copy, in a new hard slipcase. A clean, unmarked copy. This copy is one just just 150 that has been SIGNED by Ruff on a bookplate on the front endpaper (as pictured). Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-3022

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