THOMAS RUFF (B. 1958)

'Thomas Ruff astounds with his ever newer images, respectively created in larger groupings. But the context of what at first appears to be such a diverse series of images evolves to the overview of a complete body of work investigating photography as an image medium, and comparable to the seemingly contradictory groups of images by the painter Gerhard Richter.' (W. Herzogenrath, 'Thomas Ruff', in H.-M. Koetzle, Photographers A-Z, Cologne 2011, p. 340).