RUFF, Thomas

About the German photographer, Thomas RUFF (b.1958, in Zell)

Thomas RUFF studied photography with Bernd and Hilla BECHER at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1977 to 1985, influenced by Walker EVANS, Eugène ATGET, Karl BLOSSFELDT, Stephen SHORE and William EGGLESTON, among others. In 1999 he received the professorship for photography at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and led the class for photography there from 2000 to 2006. While still a student, he began his practice of conceptual photography in series; his subjects were interiors, portraits, and views of buildings. These series are followed from 1989 by photographs of the starry sky that are not based on the artist's own photographs. In the years from 1992 to 1995 he produced night photographs, and in 1994 to 1996 stereophotographs. Another series of the 1990s are the 'newspaper photographs'. Since 2003 he has increasingly turned to the alienating effects of digital photography.

Photo books by and on the work of Thomas RUFF

'Aus der Distanz' (1991, Becher-Catalog); 'Fotografien 1979 - heute' (2003); 'Machines' (2004); 'jpegs' (2009); 'Schwarzwald. Landschaft' (2009); 'Through the Looking Brain' (2011); 'Modernism' (2011); 'M.A.R.S.' (2011); 'Stellar Landscapes' (2012); 'Sterne' (2013); 'Newspaper Photographs' (2014); 'Lichten' (2014); 'Natura Morte' (2015); 'Interieurs' (2017); 'Düsseldorf School of Photography' (2017); 'LAND_SCOPE' (2018); 'Thomas Ruff' (2020); 'Schule des Augenblicks' (2021); 'Tableaux Chinois' (2022)
RUFF, Thomas - Catalog Tokyo 2017
RUFF, Thomas - Catalog Tokyo 2017
This catalog volume contains a summary of Thomas RUFF's exhibitions to date - from his earliest beginnings to his most recent works - and thus provides a complete overview of the entire oeuvre of one of the famous artists of the Düsseldorf Photo School.
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The Düsseldorf School of Photography. Photographs 1961-2008
The Düsseldorf School of Photography. Photographs 1961-2008
Photo-text volume 'The Düsseldorf School of Photography' traces its ascendancy from the mid-1970s. Filled with superb reproductions of the artists' best-known pictures, this compendium offers the first encyclopaedic overview of this important movement.
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Ansicht. Aussicht. Einsicht. Architekurphotographie by Monika Steinhauser (ed.)
Ansicht. Aussicht. Einsicht. Architekurphotographie by Monika Steinhauser (ed.)
Paperback with photo works by Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Axel HÜTTE, Thomas RUFF und Thomas STRUTH
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'Ein Bilderbuch. Fotografische Sammlung im Museum Folkwang'
'Ein Bilderbuch. Fotografische Sammlung im Museum Folkwang'
With works by Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Andreas GURSKY, Thomas RUFF, August SANDER, Peter KEETMAN, MAN RAY, Robert FRANK, Stephen SHORE, William EGGLESTON and many more
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'Fotografien werden Bilder. Die Becher-Klasse'
'Fotografien werden Bilder. Die Becher-Klasse'
'Fotografien werden Bilder' contains works by 9 Becher class graduates Volker DÖHNE, Andreas GURSKY, Candida HÖFER, Alex HÜTTE, Tata RONKHOLZ, Thomas RUFF, Jörg SASSE, Thomas STRUTH and Petra WUNDERLICH, who have reformulated the perception of photography
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Fotographers A-Z
Fotographers A-Z
'Photographers A-Z' brings together photographers who have made a significant contribution to photographic culture, as well as the most important photographic volumes of the past century. The entries are illustrated with facsimiles from books & magazines.
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'Through the Looking Brain'
'Through the Looking Brain'
The volume 'Through the Looking Brain' examines one of the best and most comprehensive collections in the field of conceptual, mainly serial photography. Their spectrum ranges from the 1970s to the present day and includes major works and central groups.
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'No Two Alike'
'No Two Alike'
'No Two Alike', expresses the shared interest of 3 artists - Karl BLOSSFELDT, Francis Bruguière, as well as Thomas RUFF - in variation as a creative principle, and represents the idea that each of these bodies of work represents a variation of the other.
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Various artists - Fiction and Fabrication. Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn
Various artists - Fiction and Fabrication. Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn
How do digital photography & Photoshop influence architectural representation? This compendium 'Fiction & Fabrication' contains current architectural photographs - from fictional constructs to real buildings, some of which seem more fantastic than fiction
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RUFF, Thomas - Monografie
RUFF, Thomas - Monografie
This comprehensive monograph on the work of Thomas RUFF focuses on series of the last 20 years, for which he used found photographs of most diverse origins. In his examination of these visual worlds, he explores the technical conditions of photography.
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