Thomas Ruff – Zeitungsfoto 071 text-based art begun in 1962

begun in 1962

a major print series inspired by the Eight Virtues of Bushidō

By painstakingly building and photographing environments out of paper

accompanied by the book My Photo Album

Gagosian / Rizzoli

Thomas Ruff – Zeitungsfoto 071 text-based art begun in 1962Zeitungsfoto 071, Sterne 22h 24m 20 (2002) by Thomas Ruff is a conceptual diptych that brings together press imagery and astronomical photography, two central strands of the artist's practice. By juxtaposing a degraded newspaper reproduction with a star field image from his Sterne series, this limited edition print exposes the differing regimes of truth, resolution, and authority embedded in scientific and mass media images. The signed c print set