Product Description: Over the past few decades, Thomas Ruff (born 1958) has explored new technologies in photography to interrogate how images are read in the age of spectacle and media dissemination. Among the most prolific members of the Düsseldorf School, Ruff effectively set aside conventional photography in 1989 to work with altered and appropriated imagery, using military technology, astrophysics and digital reproduction to explore and define the limits of contemporary image-making...read more

Product Description: "Boys get skulls, girls get butterflies…," the New York cult tattoo artist Scott Campbell said in an interview in Inked Magazine. The dictum is the point of departure for a major exhibition of jewelry at the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Koln (MAKK), Cologne, and the title of this book, which traces the lives of the ornaments on desplay from birth to death and associates them with issues such as mysticism and power, love and sentimentality, extravagance and splendor...read more