Jpegs
Thomas Ruff
Jpegs
Photographs: Thomas Ruff
Text: Bennet Simpson
Publisher: Aperture
132 pages
Pictures: 36
Year: 2009
Comments: Hardcover. 395 x 300 mm. First edition, 2009. Sealed copy.
In 2007, Ruff completed his monumental Jpegs series in which he explores the distribution and reception of images in the digital age. Starting with images he culls primarily from the Web, Ruff enlarges them to a gigantic scale, which exaggerates the pixel patterns until they become sublime geometric displays of color. Many of Ruff's works in the series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes, and conversely, scenes of war, and nature disturbed by human manipulation.
Taken together, these masterworks create an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that also actively engages the history of landscape painting. A fittingly deluxe and oversized volume, Jpegs is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the publication of Ruff's remarkable series.
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