Thomas Ruff - Hardcover

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; Giorgio Verzotti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8861302971 ISBN 13: 9788861302976

Publisher: Skira Editore, 2009

This monograph charts Ruff s entire career including early photographs and works from all his major projects. Thomas Ruff is one of the best-known and most influential german photographers working today. Ever since the early 1980s, through his works he has investigated the photographic medium, the use that is made of it and the world of contemporary visual culture generally. This volume brings together and comments upon an important selection of over 84 photographic works on the most diverse subjects: house interiors, portraits, architectures, starry skies, nocturnal urban views, along with the recent nudes taken from websites and other images from the Internet, with particular attention to his most recent works, and to the artists relationship with the visual production of the digital era generally.

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This monograph charts Ruff's entire career including early photographs and works from all his major projects.

About the Author:

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is chief curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin and was artistic director of the 2008 Sydney Biennale. She will be the director of the 2012 Documenta, the contemporary art show that takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany.

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