{"product_id":"thomas-ruff-9780854882601","title":"Thomas Ruff","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the course of his 30-year career  Thomas Ruff (born 1958) has approached every genre of photography and coolly reinvented it. One of the greatest artists to use photography in the 21st century  Ruff came of age in the 1980s alongside Andreas Gursky  Candida Hfer and Thomas Struth  in what was to become known as the Dsseldorf School. Creating photographic images on the scale of history painting but with a cool hyperrealism  Ruff moves from the micro to the macro  from portraying friends to picturing the cosmos. He also oscillates between the laboratory and the archive  experimenting with digital technologies to create photograms with virtual objects and rescuing discarded press photographs to reveal lost histories. This substantial Ruff overview accompanies a major retrospective survey at the Whitechapel Gallery in London  and contains all of his most renowned series  including portraits  disasters  sky and cityscapes  internet nudes  photograms  manga images  magnetically generated images and found press photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924852768821,"sku":"ByrdShop_085488260X","price":984.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780854882601.jpg?v=1794142501","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/thomas-ruff-9780854882601","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}