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	Thomas Ruff. (Rooseum) - Encyclopedia.com
		Thomas Ruff is not solely responsible for this phenomenon of course; he emerged in the '80s as part of a group of artists doing related work, including Thomas Struth, Candida Hofer, and Andreas Gursky, all of whom studied under Bernd and Hilda Becher at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf.
		Ruff emerged as a cold technician, interested in the workings of the camera but not at all in the psychology of his subjects, or indeed in anything interior.
		Ruff contends, "I don't pick the subjects - it's the other way around, they come to me." If that really is the case, it seems to leave very little to the artist's subjectivity, since in the actual production of the images the machine does the job.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-18963449.html (947 words)

	Thomas Ruff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Ruff (born 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach) is an internationally renowned German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf.
		Thomas Ruff studied photography from 1977 to 1985 with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy).
		Thomas Ruff's building portraits are likewise serial and reclusive, and have been edited digitally to remove obstructing details – a typifying method, which gives the images an exemplary character (Ruff: "This type of building represents more or less the ideology and economy in the West German republic in the past thirty years").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Ruff (439 words)

	Thomas Ruff - YOUNG PEOPLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Ruff's direct photography is a kind of a visual manifesto proclaiming the "purity"of photography which is to document life as it is, without interpreting it.
		Ruff stresses his rejection of psychological portrait with the fact that his models are the people belonging to his circle, those who are a part of his personal experience".
		Thomas Ruff is one of the leading German photographers of the new generation, disciple of Bernhard Becher.
	www.nonmuseum.ru /inter/ruf_e.htm (177 words)

	Thomas Ruff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Ruff: When I was eighteen I had to decide whether to become an astronomer or a photographer.
		Ruff: Not so much, but when I did portraits, people came and asked me. At that time everything was ready for doing portraits so I said, okay, sit in front of the camera.
		Ruff: Yes, I use a light-amplifying lens that is normally installed in tanks or military jets to see at night.
	www.jca-online.com /ruff.html (1621 words)

	Thomas Ruff \| Press Release \| Regen Projects
		Ruffâs latest series entitled âSterne/Starsâ will be on view in the main gallery, accompanied by several âPortraitsâ in the auxiliary gallery.
		Ruffâs photographs may easily be seen as a contemporary embellishment of the German, pre-WWII, photographic tradition: the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit).
		A retrospective of Thomas Ruffâs photographs has recently traveled to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centre National dâArt Contemporain - Magasin in Grenoble, and is currently on view at the Kunsthalle in Zurich.
	www.regenprojects.com /past/1990-10-thomas-ruff (320 words)

	Thomas Ruff at Contemporary Fine Arts.(Berlin, Germany)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article) - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		This exhibition of large-format computer montages by Thomas Ruff was called simply "Poster." A photographer with a coolly dispassionate eye, Ruff has previously been known for works that exude an air of neutrality and disengagement.
		Ruff evidently possesses a deep knowledge of the photomontage style of the 1930s, especially that of Heartfield.
		Equally striking is the way that Ruff singles out individual political figures as his targets, without delving too deeply into the wider ramifications of questions like freedom in China, German political leadership, and so on.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-20807809.html (516 words)

	Polish culture: Thomas Ruff. Photography
		Thomas Ruff was born in 1958 in Zell am Hamersbach in the Schwarzwald.
		Though Ruff creates realistic photographs, he is not so interested in the documentary nature of images as in reflection on the convention of photographic representation and, more generally, on visual experiences in an age dominated by electronic media.
		Thomas Ruff's retrospective in Warsaw was prepared based on an exhibition curated by Matthias Winzen, Ph.D., and organized by the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/wy_wy_ruff_fotografia_csw (389 words)

	Thomas Ruff - Wikipedia
		Thomas Ruff studierte von 1977 bis 1985 bei Bernd und Hilla Becher an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Fotografie.
		Seit 2000 lehrt Thomas Ruff Fotografie an der Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (die ehemalige „Becher-Klasse“).
		(Ruff: „Solche Gebäude repräsentieren mehr oder weniger Ideologie und Geschäft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den letzten dreißig Jahren.“) Die Aufnahmetechnik ist, bezogen auf Licht, Perspektive und Standort, standardisiert.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Ruff (380 words)

	Exhibiton 7; Thomas Ruff; Porträts
		PORTRÄTS Encountering the photo portraits of Thomas Ruff (born in 1958, living in Düsseldorf) for the first time, one may easily just look past them and go on to the next attraction.
		Thomas Ruff has found a precise and open pictorial formulation for portraits, a theme which has become so ticklish.
		This sequence of colour photographs documents in an exemplary manner Thomas Ruff's oeuvre of portraits and highlights - following the characteristic of a book - the aspect of creating a series, which is important for him.
	www.portikus.de /ArchiveA0007.html (200 words)

	THOMAS M. RUFF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		THOMAS M. The Rev. Thomas M. Ruff, pastor of the Baptist churches at Logan and at Monitor, West Virginia, came to this State from Alabama, but back of that he had gone to Alabama from the old red hills of middle Georgia.
		Ruff was born in the old county town of Sparta, Hancock County, Ga., on March 10, 1867, which was only a short time after the war and the coming of freedom.
		His father, Mark Ruff, was a farmer after the order of his day in that part of Georgia, and was a deacon in the Baptist church.
	www.wvculture.org /history/histamne/ruff.html (569 words)

	Artmosphere
		Thomas Ruff made a name for himself with his series of large-format "portraits".
		Thomas Ruff’s real achievement lies in recognising the items’ fetishist character as something he could use for his own ends.
		Ruff frees the found object photographs from their original advertising purpose, and all that is left are the objects themselves.
	www.artmosphere.at /artists.php?kid=10 (357 words)

	Press Release Thomas Ruff, 2003 - Mai 36 Galerie Zürich
		Ruff’s series enable us to comprehend the steps of development undertaken in product photography, which lastly should result in the depiction of the toolmachines and the manufactured tools in the completed sales brochure.
		Here Ruff used copies of comics which he worked on digitally, overlapping them in numerous layers, multiplying them so often as to end up with a three-dimensional abstract space of colours, lacking all sense and meaning, created out of the flat two-dimensional comics.
		Thomas Ruff will be in Zürich from October 2nd to 4th.
	www.mai36.com /pressrelease/Thomas_Ruff_PR2003.html (527 words)

	Tate Magazine Issue 5: Thomas Ruff
		Ruff has been testing the limits of his medium for more than two decades, completing a dozen series of photographs that range from seemingly banal images of streets and buildings to computer-generated prints of sensuous psychedelic colour fields.
		Ruff multiplies our visual experiences by extending his frames of reference beyond the surface of the photograph, beyond the primary level of what is depicted, particularly towards other kinds of pictures.
		'Thomas Ruff: Photographs 1979 to Present' is at Tate Liverpool from 9 May to 6 July, in partnership with Volkswagen for Phaeton and Touareg.
	www.tate.org.uk /magazine/issue5/ruff.htm (1166 words)

	Irish Museum of Modern Art: Thomas Ruff Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
		'Thomas Ruff: Photographs 1979 to the Present', which comprises over a 100 works, presents an extensive overview of every facet of the artist’s output, including his deceptively straightforward shots of architecture and interiors and his famous oversized, deadpan 'Portrait' series, on which he has been working since 1980.
		Thomas Ruff’s art explores the objective gaze of the lens and the role of the viewer, the photographer and the subject.
		Thomas Ruff: Photographs 1979 to the Present is a touring exhibition organised by Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
	www.modernart.ie /en/page_19395.htm (569 words)

	ctrl[space] : Rhetorics of Surveillance
		Thomas Ruff first exhibited the large-sized photographs of his Night series in 1992 at documenta IX.
		Thomas Ruff is not so much interested in presenting reality or capturing a fleeting moment.
		[5] Naturally the similarity of Ruff’s series to the aesthetics of police portraits also points to the manner in which Sander’s work was misused by the National Socialists, who used his photos of various representatives of society for the development of specific racist characteristics (especially of criminals and Jews).
	ctrlspace.zkm.de /e/texts/45 (993 words)

	Goethe-Institut USA - Society - Social Concerns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Thomas Ruff (who was born in 1958) made a name for himself with his series of large-format portraits.
		Thomas Ruff viewed this material, scanned the original small-scale diagrams, processed them digitally, colouring parts of the photographs in the process, and then made large-scale print-outs.
		Since Ruff shows the whole of the negative, parts of the original photograph can be seen which the original photographer had allowed when taking the picture, but had masked during subsequent processing.
	www.goethe.de /ins/us/kug/ges/soz/en79150.htm (946 words)

	Irish Museum of Modern Art: Thomas Ruff Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
		Thomas Ruff’s art explores the objective gaze of the lens and the role of the viewer, the photographer and the subject.
		Ruff has explored many familiar genres and has an uncanny feel for the ordinary — in people, places and objects.
		Thomas Ruff: Photographs 1979 to the Present is a touring exhibition organised by Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
	www.imma.ie /en/page_19395.htm (580 words)

	Thomas Ruff (Artist) in Zurich (Switzerland) from Re-title.com
		The question of the visual foundations of our present runs like a thread through the work of the artist Thomas Ruff (born in Zell am Harmersbach in the Black Forest in 1958 and currently living in Düsseldorf).
		For the past few years, Thomas Ruff has been experimenting with computer-generated pictures and pondering on the commonest platform for their dissemination, the Internet.
		Thomas Ruff, however, is interested in the effects of compression.
	www.re-title.com /artists/Thomas-Ruff.asp (462 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Ruff - Biography
		Thomas Ruff was born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany.
		Ruff began photographing landscapes, but while he was still a student he transitioned to interiors (1979–83) and deadpan portraits of friends.
		Ruff has exhibited widely since 1981, with solo shows at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1989), Centre National de la Photographie in Paris (1997), Chabot Museum in Rotterdam (2001), and Tate Liverpool (2003), among others.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_207.html (332 words)

	2006 Thomas Ruff - International Center Of Photography
		The conceptual photographer Thomas Ruff was born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany.
		Ruff began exhibiting in Germany in the early 1980s and has maintained a significant global presence ever since.
		Ruff is represented by the David Zwirner gallery in New York, where his work is often shown.
	www.icp.org /site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2079953/k.8CFB/Thomas_Ruff.htm (325 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Thomas Ruff
		Candida Hfer is the senior member of the Becher circle, the first class of studentsincluding Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, and Axel Htteto study at the Dusseldorf Academy under the tutelage of renowned professor Bernd Becher in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Thomas Ruff, a German photographer who is prominently featured in the exhibition, said in a 1993 interview (with Philip Pocock) that "photography pretends to show reality." This may be unnerving for those who still work under the assumption that photography is able to "capture" reality like a sure-shot hunter going after an elusive prey.
		Ruff ups the ante when he goes on to say that most photographs - even the old, darkroom productions - present a reality that is "manipulated and prearranged.".
	news.surfwax.com /art/files/Thomas_Ruff_Art.html (610 words)

	ZWIRNER & WIRTH \| Thomas Ruff
		Having worked with architectural subject matter since the mid-1980s, Ruff was enlisted to photograph the Krefeld buildings as well as the Barcelona Pavilion and the Villa Tugendhat in Brno.
		Given the freedom to choose how the buildings would be rendered, Ruff was faced with the challenge of discovering a new way to capture these all-too-familiar and heavily documented monuments.
		For many of the buildings, Ruff made a series of small interior photographs, a subject matter dating back to his earliest work at the Düsseldorf Künstakademie in the late 1970s, where he studied under the conceptual photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher.
	www.zwirnerandwirth.com /exhibitions/2001/092001Ruff/press.html (450 words)

	THE BROOKLYN RAIL - ART
		This work made Ruff’s concern with questions of perception immediately visible: the pictures were nearly indecipherable from a great distance, resolved into recognizable images of landscapes and catastrophes at a middle distance, and dissolved into a mass of pixels up close.
		Ruff: I didn’t have the time to go to Stuttgart, and in Berlin the situation was that I could not take photographs of the buildings at all, so I asked Terry Riley to send me archival photos.
		Ruff: This is kind of a smoking parlor, the room where men sit together, have a smoke, and talk without the women.
	www.thebrooklynrail.org /arts/june05/ruff.html (3809 words)

	Thomas Ruff: Portrait (A. Siekman) (1999.210) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		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.
		The large scale and technical perfection of Ruff's portraits refer to both the museum and the street—to billboards and heroic painting—while elevating the anonymous sitter to the stature and visibility of a public figure.
		Instead of presuming to depict the transcendent, individual essence of the sitter, however, Ruff's portraits deliberately assume the neutrality of the mug shot, physiognomic study, and identity card, and, by extension, the entire brightly lit world of surveillance in which his subjects were raised.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/hd/phdu/hod_1999.210.htm (232 words)

	ZWIRNER & WIRTH \| Thomas Ruff
		Ruff's Stars photographs, in which the photographer literally appropriated whole swaths of the night sky (he bought the negatives from the European Southern Observatory), overlap several genres from landscape to scientific illustration to authorless, automatic abstraction.
		Ruff is also attracted to photographic technology and new techniques for manipulating images.
		Ruff appropriates existing imagery (as he did in his Stars series), downloading generic photos from pornographic "thumbnail galleries" on the Internet, which he then proceeds to enlarge, distort, and transform.
	www.zwirnerandwirth.com /exhibitions/2000/042000Ruff/press.html (544 words)

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		Thomas was very much interested in Traceway, but Sister did most—well, we called her Sister—and she did a lot of—oh, she went up to Northwestern before she came back to retire in Tupelo.
		Thomas: Well, she was a quiet person, and as P.K. said, "Mother never really had a temper." You know, as far as lashing out or anything like that, but she ruled the house with just a calm word.
		Thomas had died, and [he] said, "It makes me know—first, call me Abe, as it makes me know that you are taking the place of your dad." And he told him that he was glad that he had written him, and so forth.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~spcol/coh/cohthomaseb.html (14395 words)

	Tate Liverpool \| Past Exhibitions \| Thomas Ruff
		Thomas Ruff, one of six children, was born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach in the Black Forest, Germany.
		Ruff was an academic child excelling in maths and science.
		Thomas Ruff: 1979 to the Present was organised by the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and is curated by Matthias Winzen, Director Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
	www.tate.org.uk /liverpool/exhibitions/ruff (302 words)

	Thomas Ruff
		Seit 1987 photographiert Ruff auch Bauten von außen.
		Dabei sieht Thomas Ruff die Gestalt der Fassaden selbst als aussagekräftige Zeugnisse ihrer Zeit: "Solche Gebäude repräsentieren mehr oder weniger Ideologie und Geschäft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den letzten dreißig Jahren.
		Die Aufnahmen Thomas Ruffs vermitteln daher nicht in erster Linie Erkenntnisse über die uns umgebende Umwelt, sondern über das Bild der Realität, welches eine direkte Erfahrung der Wirklichkeit zunehmend ersetzt.
	www.kgi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de /archphot/ruff/ruff1.htm (512 words)

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