Thomas Ruff

Title: Thomas Ruff
Artist: Thomas Ruff
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Year: born in 1958

Artist's Biography – (50-75 words):
He studied photography starting from 1977 to 1985. A couple of his main influences were William Eggleston, Eugene Atget, Karl Blossfeld, Walker Evans, and Stephen Shore. His method of photography was a conceptual serial. In 2003 is started to publish pictures of nudes with the help of someone named Michel Houellebecq, a French Author for the text. His ideas were based Internet pornography.


Personal Reaction – (50 – 75 words):
I believe Thomas Ruff has done many different things with his photography. I mean taking pictures of buildings to naked women are pretty one extreme to the other. Another thing that was pretty cool was the nude pictures were really blurry almost like a fantasy. I understand that people should take interest and explore many different ideas and thoughts of what they want to photograph. And you won't be able to see what you are capable of doing unless you explore.



Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Jillian Goss