Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff, Queen in Car - Double-sided digital pigment print, Signed Print

2021

Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958) Negatives I, 2016 Medium: Digital pigment print, on rag paper Dimensions: 70 x 100 cm (25.5 x 39.5 in) Edition of 40: Hand-signed and numbered on ve...

Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958) Untitled (Stars 17h 38m/-30°, 1990), 1990/2004 Medium: C-print, bookplate and artist’s book Dimensions: 40 × 30 cm (15 7/10 × 11 4/5 in) Edition of 30: ...

1970's Color Photograph Female Portrait Artist, Subject and Exact Date are Unknown (Fred Newman list on back) in the style of artist Thomas Ruff image 8" x 10" - mounted to matte...

Remie Lohse was born in Puerto Rico, studied painting in Denmark, and settled in New York in 1928, where he became a professional photographer. In the 1930s he was a freelancer who specialized in advertising and magazine features, and shot covers for Vogue. If he often focused on the high life, seen in this couple stepping out on the town, he also shot humble subjects. He was more interested in his art than a particular milieu, and many of his photographs are little masterpieces. His contemporary Gilbert Seldes, the noted Vanity Fair media critic and “public intellectual” (not to mention father of actress Marian Seldes), featured Lohse in his 1934 book 'This is New York, The First Modern Photographic Book of New York.' In 1939 Lohse came out with his own book titled 'The Miniature Camera in Professional Hands.' Our photograph was one of three shot by Lohse for a 1934 Vogue article titled “High Spots and Low Music." If the photograph (image size 4 1/4" x 6") show a couple making the nocturnal rounds of Manhattan restaurants, bars, and jazz clubs, the story itself also covers the daytime meeting places of the ladies who lunch. The twist is that Lohse’s model was the author herself, Elena Mumm Thornton, and her husband James Worth...