You're bidding on two books by/on Thomas Ruff. Thomas Ruff is a contemporary German photographer and prominent member of the Düsseldorf School. His broad oeuvre incorporates images of domestic interiors, austere portraits, blurred pornography, photograms, and found JPEGs which intend to spur the imagination rather than capture reality. Born on February 10, 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany, Ruff studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf during the late 1970s. The Becher’s treatment of photography as an open archive became an underlying structure for the young artist, as it did for his classmates Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Candida Höfer. Since the late 1980s, the artist has worked with found images of the night sky, notably his m.a.r.s. series of 2012, has further blurred the line between reality and fiction. Cindy Sherman/Thomas Ruff/Frank Montero - 1,000 Faces/0 Faces/1 Face Publisher: La Fábrica, 2011 Hardcover, 144 pages, Spanish/English SIze: 26.7x20.7cm New in seal Thomas Ruff – Thomas Ruff Publisher: Prestel, 2020 Hardcover, 240 pages, English/German Size: 30.6×22.9cm New in seal