[Leica] A new use for jpegs

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

At 06:54 PM 5/9/2009, you wrote:
>Thinking of Tina. ;-)
>http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/mshowdetailsbycat.cfm?catalog=dq179
>--
>Phil Swango

 From a review:

"Thomas Ruff, a leader of the celebrated 
D?sseldorf school of photography, has not taken a 
picture in nearly four years. In place of the 
camera, he?s turned to the computer; in lieu of 
the world, he has the World Wide Web.  His 
current show at the David Zwirner gallery marks 
his second exhibit using a series of JPEGs?the 
reigning digital compression standard?mostly 
culled from the Internet and blown up to 
monumental proportions.  ....Today, there is nary 
an image that cannot be had for the price of a 
mouse click. Ruff?s JPEGs challenge the cozy yet 
disquieting proximity of photos, a propinquity 
that can dissolve the very possibility of 
geographic, temporal or even psychic distance. 
Ruff, however, isn?t providing some Archimedean 
point from which to view the world objectively, 
for the distance he describes is lodged in the 
very codes of contemporary vision."

So he's stealing other photographers jpegs off 
the web and blowing them up to monumental sizes.  And getting rave reviews.

Boo.  Hiss.  :-(

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com