press++, 2018

This edition accompanies Thomas Ruff’s body of work press++. The source materials for this series are mainly black-and-white press photographs from the 1930s to the 1980s, originating primarily from the archives of American newspapers and magazines. Ruff scanned both the front and back of the original documents, combining the partially edited photograph on the front with the texts, comments, and traces of use found on the reverse. Similar to his early 1990s series Newspaper Photographs, Thomas Ruff selected images that span the full spectrum of newspaper reportage – from politics and society to science, technology, culture, and fashion.