SIGNED; Thomas Ruff - Jpegs (SPECIAL SLIPCASE EDITION, LIMITED TO 150) - 2009

IMPRESSIVE BIG-FORMAT PHOTOBOOK by internationally very well-known German photographer and artist Thomas Ruff - here in the STRONGLY LIMITED SLIPCASE EDITION of 150 copies only.

I am offering number 24 of 150.

Bodly signed by Thomas Ruff.
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Thomas Ruff, born 1958, was part of the legendary first class by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the "Kunstakademie" in Düsseldorf (together with Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and Axel Hütte). Thomas Ruff studied at the academy from 1977 to 1985.
Thomas Ruff is often compared with other members of a prominent generation of European photographers, including Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky and Rineke Dijkstra.
Thomas Ruff has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images".
In 1982, he spent six months at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 1993, he was a scholar at Villa Massimo in Rome.
Commenting on his influences, Ruff said, "My teacher Bernd Becher, showed us photographs by Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, and the new American colour photographers."
From 2000 to 2005, Thomas Ruff taught Photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

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Aperture, New York. 2009. First English edition, first printing.

Hardcover with slipcase. 295 x 390 mm (book), 300 x 400 mm (slipcase). 132 pages. 65 colour photos. Photos: Thomas Ruff. Edited by Joanna Lehan. Essay by Bennett Simpson. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Book outside with fresh covers; spine sunned and with some small flaws. Slipcase complete with no tears and with no missing parts; strongly sunned. Overall very good condition.

Great, sought-after photobook by Thomas Ruff, here in the strongly limited special slipcase edition of 150 copies only - numbered and signed by the artist.

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"Thomas Ruff lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images". Thomas Ruff shares a studio on Düsseldorf's Hansaallee, with other German photographers Laurenz Berges, Andreas Gursky and Axel Hütte. The studio, a former municipal electricity station, includes a basement gallery. Thomas Ruff, one of six children, was born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach in the Black Forest, Germany. In the summer of 1974, Ruff acquired his first camera and after attending an evening class in the basic techniques of photography he started to experiment, taking shots similar to those he had seen in many amateur photography magazines. During his studies in Düsseldorf and inspired by the lectures of Benjamin HD Buchloh, Ruff developed his method of conceptual serial photography. Ruff began photographing landscapes, but while he was still a student he transitioned to the interiors of German living quarters, with typical features of the 1950s to 1970s. This was followed by similar views of buildings and portraits of friends and acquaintances from the Düsseldorf art and music scene, initially in small formats. Thomas Ruff studied photography from 1977 to 1985 with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy), where fellow students included the photographers Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, Angelika Wengler, and Petra Wunderlich. In 1982, he spent six months at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 1993, he was a scholar at Villa Massimo in Rome. Commenting on his influences, Thomas Ruff said, "My teacher Bernd Becher, showed us photographs by Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, and the new American colour photographers." He is often compared with other members of a prominent generation of European photographers that includes Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, and Rineke Dijkstra. From 2000 to 2005, Ruff taught Photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf."
(Wikipedia)