Photographic Objects

For the first time, Photographic Objects traces important conceptual connections between the work of Thomas Ruff and that of a younger generation of artists. Against the backdrop of ongoing debates on the "nature of photography," Marcus Kramer has developed a new approach to pinpointing what distinguishes the photographic medium from all others.

The book's detailed illustrations offer an extensive overview of the work of Thomas Ruff, Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, and Spiros Hadjidjanos, while the theory postulated here forms a conceptual framework for the discussion of contemporary artistic practices.

Markus Kramer is a collector of and specialist on Thomas Ruff's photographic work. 2012 he has published Thomas Ruff. Modernism (Kehrer Verlag).

Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach) is an internationally renowned German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf. Ruff has exhibited widely, e.g. Documenta 9, the Venice Biennale (1995 and 2005).

Over the past decade, New York–based artist Wade Guyton (b. 1972) has pioneered a groundbreaking body of work that explores our changing relationships to images and artworks through the use of common digital technologies, such as the desktop computer, scanner, and inkjet printer.

Seth Price (born 1973 in East Jerusalem) is a New York-based conceptual artist known for investigating the field of contemporary art distribution and media distribution.

Kelley Walker (b.1969 Columbus, Georgia) is an American artist.He produces work collaboratively with artist Wade Guyton under the moniker Guyton\Walker. Over the past ten years, Walker’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums.

Spiros Hadjidjanos is a Greek artist based in Berlin, Germany..