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For this reason, Ruff often photographed the views exactly as he found them—with the existing natural light and without changing the furnishings in any way. He discontinued the series in 1983 since most of the apartments belonging to his relatives and acquaintances were modernized in the early 1980s and brought into line with the style of the ...
Thomas Ruff. Thomas Ruff is a contemporary German photographer and prominent member of the Düsseldorf School. His broad oeuvre incorporates images of domestic interiors, austere portraits, blurred pornography, photograms, and found JPEGs which intend to spur the imagination rather than capture reality. “I think that historically photographs ...
And yet, considered together, these psychologically blank portraits convey something of the character of Ruff's generation — the first to be born after World War II. since 1980, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007, p. 102. Thomas Ruff. Portrait. 1989. Chromogenic print. 5' × 3' 11 1/4" (152.4 × 120 cm).
Short Biography Thomas Ruff. Thomas Ruff was born in Zell am Harmersbach in 1958 and studied with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art from 1977 to 1985. From 2000 to 2005, he was himself Professor of Photography there. He first received international attention in 1987 with his series of larger-than-life portraits of friends ...
May 26, 2022 · Thomas Ruff got into capturing portrait photos in 1981. He mastered the required photography technique between 1981 and 1985. Along with portrait photography, Ruff was into large format printing, producing images in large seven feet (2,1 meter) by five feet (1,5 meter). This combination helped to introduce a unique feel to the pictures.
Exhibition Thomas Ruff: Photographs 1979 – 2017. 27 September 2017 – 21 January 2018. Cosmology, suburbia, nudity, utopianism, catastrophe – these are some of the subjects that Thomas Ruff (b. 1958, Germany) addresses in his photographic series, which for almost four decades have investigated the status of the image in contemporary culture.
