Thomas Ruff. Modernism Contributor(s): Ruff, Thomas (Photographer), Kramer, Markus (Author) |
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ISBN: 3868282645 ISBN-13: 9783868282641 Publisher: Kehrer Verlag OUR PRICE: $45.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
Dewey: 779.092 |
LCCN: 2012396708 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 9.5" W x 11.2" (2.38 lbs) 144 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The work of Thomas Ruff marks a paradigm change in photography: systematically and on an impressive level of aesthetic quality, the artist has for more than three decades been subjecting the medium of photography to a modernist analysis by introducing several formal innovations. One by one, Ruff has teased out basic parameters of the medium and their aesthetic interdependencies, taking photography beyond well-trodden paths. It's all the more remarkable, then, that exhibitions and the literature to date have tended to neglect these circumstances: up to now, the artist's work has repeatedly been presented and discussed exclusively in terms of its content and media-critical aspects. The present examination focuses instead for the first time on the unique pictorial vocabulary Thomas Ruff has developed, which with its powerful and complex aesthetic demonstrates--while consistently reflecting on its medium--how the use of photography can be freed from its traditional patterns of application. |