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Thomas Ruff at Whitechapel Gallery

Organized by Iwona Blazwick, the first major London retrospective of Thomas Ruff’s work features more than a dozen of the German photographer’s series, spanning from the 1970s to the present. Investigations of portraits, machines, and surveillance are seen separates archival news images from their context, while Ruff’s recent work in focuses on editorial and crop markings on photographs taken from decades of American newspapers.

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