Thomas Ruff: Tableaux Chinois

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Author: Ruff, ThomasIn the early 2000s, Thomas Ruff chanced across a coffee-table propaganda book on Mao Zedong and became interested in the visual rhetoric of Chinese Communism. R uff scanned images depicting cheerful soldiers, scenic views and ceremonial occasions, enlarging them to reveal the offset halftone dots, then duplicating the image and converting it into pixels; that image was then layered over the original scan. Ruff's final images contain both analogue halftone and digital pixel.As Susanne Holschbach observes, 'Ruff has visually merged the technological process of preparing photographs for their mass distribution from the two photographic eras on one pictorial plane.'ISBN 9783753301761. Walther König, Köln. hb. 176 pages. 37 x 31 cm.available Show more