Thomas Ruff - Machines - Hatje Cantz 2005

This book presents "Machine" pictures. In this series, Thomas Ruff borrows from the picture archive of a Dusseldorf machine factory, where he discovered glass negatives that had been used for commercial brochures. The artist scanned the negatives and then proceeded to digitally alter their color and size. By freeing these images from their original context and re-processing them, Ruff grants them a pictorial autonomy. Thus, with the Machines series, Thomas Ruff not only investigates the history of photography, but also ponders such fundamental questions as how something can appear in a picture, how we perceive pictures, and what role our assumptions about media play.

96p - EN - 28,5x24,5cm - cloth hardcover - sealed & mint