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Thomas Ruff. Portrait. 1989. Chromogenic print. 5' × 3' 11 1/4" (152.4 × 120 cm). The Fellows of Photography Fund. 326.1990. © 2025 Thomas Ruff / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany. Photography
Negative I, by Thomas Ruff. "I make investigations that ask people to become aware of what they are looking at," says the artist Thom…
View Portrait (M. Schell) By Ruff Thomas; 80 x 63in. (205 x 160cm.); . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
Critic Noemi Smolik reviews a new exhibition of Thomas Ruff's work in Dusseldorf.
View Blue Substrat (2009) By Ruff Thomas; Color lithograph on cream wove paper; 24 1/4x23 1/2 inches; Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
Thomas Ruff Intérieur 3D (Tegernsee), 1983 Chromogenic print on Kodak paper Find more on my Instagram at @zuta_gauze
Thomas Ruff Haus Nr. 7 II, 1988 C-print Find more on my Instagram at @zuta_gauze
German artist Thomas Ruff christens the V&A Photography Centre with a major new commission, in which he revisits a set of 1850s images of temples, palaces and monuments in India and Burma captured by British Army captain and photographer Linnaeus Tripe
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Thomas Ruff is one of the key figures of photography in the postmodern era, and his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, will probably already be pencilled into your calendar if you have any interest in contemporary art.
Aperture editor-in-chief Michael Famighetti interviewed photographer Thomas Ruff about his new series of photograms, on view spring 2013 in New York.
Portrait (V. Liebermann)
"In a way I wanted to blot out any traces or information about the person in front of the camera. I also wanted to indicate that the viewer is not face-to-face with a real person." Gil Blank with Thomas Ruff, originally published in Influence Magazine, Issue 2, 2004 Gil Blank: Many of the p
Is Thomas Ruff a photographer or artist? Both. Thomas Ruff was born in Germany in 1958. He still lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
During the late 1980s Ruff photographed his fellow students at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, combining the typological mode of his teacher Bernd Becher with the serial progressions and primary structures of Minimalism
