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In this series, German photographer Thomas Ruff—a leading figure of the Düsseldorf School—draws on the image archives of a machinery factory in Düsseldorf, where he discovered glass negatives that had been used for sales brochures. The artist scanned the negatives and then digitally altered their color and size. By freeing these images from their original context and reworking them, Ruff grants them pictorial autonomy. Thus, with the Machines series, Ruff explores not only the history of photography but also fundamental questions such as how something appears in an image, how we perceive images, and what role our assumptions about the media play.
Catalog of the exhibition *Thomas Ruff: Nudes and Machines*, organized by the Kestner Gesellschaft gallery in Hanover from December 5, 2003, to February 29, 2004.
Published by Hatje Cantz, 2003 (livre )
24.5 cm 28.5 cm, 104 pages, in good condition
ISBN
In this series, German photographer Thomas Ruff—a leading figure of the Düsseldorf School—draws on the image archives of a machinery factory in Düsseldorf, where he discovered glass negatives that had been used for sales brochures. The artist scanned the negatives and then digitally altered their color and size. By freeing these images from their original context and reworking them, Ruff grants them pictorial autonomy. Thus, with the Machines series, Ruff explores not only the history of photography but also fundamental questions such as how something appears in an image, how we perceive images, and what role our assumptions about the media play.
Catalog of the exhibition *Thomas Ruff: Nudes and Machines*, organized by the Kestner Gesellschaft gallery in Hanover from December 5, 2003, to February 29, 2004.
Published by Hatje Cantz, 2003 (livre )
24.5 cm 28.5 cm, 104 pages, in good condition
ISBN
