Thomas Ruff - Nature Morte
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| Publisher | Gagosian Gallery |
| ISBN | 9781938748196 |
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Ruff is a leading innovator in the generation of German artists that propelled photography into mainstream art. Open and explorative, he has pushed the limits of the medium, harnessing technologies both old and new to reconceptualize architectural, astrological, pornographic, and portrait photography. Ruff's recent negatives extend his explorations of the photogram, in which he used positive and negative imagery to create a mesmerizing photographic world of nebulous shadows, spheres, zigzags, and hard edges against richly coloured backgrounds. Reversing the negative's role as a means to an end, he digitally transforms sepia-toned albumen prints into dramatically contrasting apparitions.
| 40 p, ills colour, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English |
Gagosian Gallery
