Thomas Ruff is a photographer with an instantly recognizable style, one which you can see referenced in fashion magazines, galleries and Tumblr accounts the world over. His famous “Portraits” series, ...

A major new body of work by German artist Thomas Ruff bridges digital manipulation with one of the earliest important achievements in analogue photography. Commissioned to celebrate the opening V&A’s ...

The Düsseldorf photographer Thomas Ruff is having his day in the sun, with the Art Gallery of Ontario's ‘Object Relations’, a major solo show, opening this month. Closer to home, Chelsea’s David ...

Speaking recently at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Thomas Ruff said he used to “really believe that photography captured reality.” This would have been when Ruff was in his early 20s – he’s ...

Foreword / Okwui Enwezor -- The conditions of spectrality and spectatorship in Thomas Ruff's photographs / Okwui Enwezor -- The scientific artist / Thomas Weski -- Interiors -- Portraits -- Houses -- ...

Thomas Ruff is one of the key figures of photography in the postmodern era, and his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, will probably already be pencilled into your calendar if you have ...

This essay analyses Thomas Ruff's jpegs series (from 2004) and argues, against recent proclamations by scholars and artists such as Michael Fried and Jeff Wall regarding the 'defeat' of Conceptual Art ...

Thomas Ruff’s talent has the most obviously protean disposition of that group of well-known photographers trained in Düsseldorf by Bernd and Hilla Becher. His is a restless and relentless testing of ...

As the practice of traditional photography itself fades like a print left too long in sunlight, artists who use photography look to its history for expression. Thomas Ruff has developed a virtual way ...

At Sprüth Magers, London, group show ‘Seriously’ delves into humour in art, from the satirical to the slapstick. Sprüth Magers, LondonFrom a girl chewing gum to a colourless cheeseburger, you can’t ...