June 3—July 29, 2006
Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Jpegs Thomas Ruff
Press Release
With his latest, again large-format, photographic works in the jpegs series, Thomas Ruff continues his well-known interest in the mechanical production and processing of images. Here Ruff experiments with the image file compression format of the same name, which was named after the 'Joint Photographic Experts Group', which developed this method for compressing image files in September 1992. The jpeg format is used in particular for the preparation and optimization of digital images for display...