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6Jpegs: Thomas Ruff and the horror of digital photographyPhilosophy of Photography 12 (1): 93-109. 2021.This article analyses the aesthetics of digital compression as revealed in Thomas Ruff’s Jpegs series of photographs (2004–07). These images exhibit a poor standard of digital picture resolution fixed as large-scale, high-quality, lustrous C-type photographic prints. With reference to Vilém Flusser’s writing on photography, I argue that Ruff’s work discloses a ‘horror of digital photography’: a system of automated representation, which inverts our relationship to the photographic image.
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University of EdinburghResearcher
Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |