Thomas Ruff

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 artist's relationship with the visual production of the digital era generally.
Key Sales Information - The volume is also the catalogue of an exhibition (Turin, Castello di Rivoli 16 March - 21 June 2009), and includes a number of previously unpublished essays by the curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and by Daniel Birnbaum, director of the Venice Biennial 2009, Visual Arts section.
- In addition to the works in the exhibition, it presents some of the most important and widely discussed of Ruff 's creations since the 1980s.
- The volume also contains a complete bio-bibliographical apparatus and an anthology of writings on the artist, some never previously published in English.
Author Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is currently 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 2012 Documenta, the contemporary art show that takes place every five years in the German city of Kassel.