Jpegs - Thomas Ruff

"Jpegs" - Thomas Ruff (asin:1597110930)
http://www.aperture.org/books/books-new/jpegs.html

In 2007, Ruff completed his monumental Jpegs series in which he explores the distribution
and reception of images in the digital age. Starting with images he culls primarily from the Web,
Ruff enlarges them to a gigantic scale, which exaggerates the pixel patterns
until they become sublime geometric displays of color.
Many of Ruff’s works in the series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes,
and conversely, scenes of war, and nature disturbed by human manipulation.