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Thomas Ruff, press++01.16<\/i>, 2015, chromogenic print, 72 7\/8″ x 91″.<\/p><\/div>\n

The German photographer Thomas Ruff\u2019s \u201cpress++<\/a>,\u201d showing now at David Zwirner Gallery, comprises space-age images\u00a0culled from the archival clippings of various American newspapers. Ruff scanned both sides\u00a0of the original documents and layered them in Photoshop, thus presenting both the photos and the context\u2014the smudges, cropping, commentary, and retouching\u2014that surrounded their initial publication.\u00a0\u201cI think photography is still the most influential medium in the world, and I have to deconstruct these conventions<\/a>,\u201d he told\u00a0Aperture\u00a0<\/em>in 2013:<\/p>\n

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I try to find out how the image was created and in what context\u2014historical, political, or social\u2014the image belongs \u2026\u00a0There are a lot of different photographs, and different photographs have different intentions. Fine art, medical, propaganda, and of course the most influential image-production machine is advertisement. This transformation, let\u2019s say, of the scientific photography into the art world, or advertising photography into politics (as seen in the last U.S. election)\u2014this modification of images from one intention to another brings about interferences. The image, and the meaning <\/i>of the image, changes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cpress++\u201d is up\u00a0through April 30.
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press++01.20<\/i>, 2015, chromogenic print, 89 3\/8″ x 72 7\/8″.<\/p><\/div>

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press++01.36<\/i>, 2015, chromogenic print, 72 7\/8″ x 88 1\/4″.<\/p><\/div>

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press++01.65<\/i>, 2015, chromogenic print, 91 3\/4″ x 72 7\/8″.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

All images courtesy David Zwirner, New York\/London.<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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