Thomas Ruff

born 1958

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Biography

Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as “a master of edited and reimagined images”.

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.

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Artworks

Thomas Ruff Portrait 1986 (Stoya)

1986
Thomas Ruff Goetz Collection

1994
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Thomas Ruff Tate01

2000

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Thomas Ruff Night 15 III

1994
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Thomas Ruff Portrait 1988 (C. Pilar)

1988

Features

Essay

Surface tension

Viviane Rehberg

Thomas Ruff insists that his photographs capture only 'the surface of things'. But is there more than meets the eye?
Art Term

Dusseldorf School of Photography

The Dusseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in the mid ...
Tate Etc

Magical, powerful, simple, shocking: Four photographers on Street & Studio

Juergen Teller , Sarah Jones , David Goldblatt and Chris Killip

To coincide with Tate Modern's survey exhibition Juergen Teller enjoys the timeless charm of a Cecil Beaton portrait, David ...
Tate Etc

'For want of a new territory to conquer, the fictional energies of art have penetrated into the factual and material basis of photography'

Max Kozloff

Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography
Essay

Cruel and tender

Carter Ratcliff

What is the place of documentary photography in art? This is the central question raised by Tate's first major ...