Since the early 1980s, Thomas Ruff (born 1958) has explored the photographic medium, its uses, and the wider realm of contemporary visual culture through his work. This volume brings together a major selection of more than 200 photographs, including domestic interiors, portraits, architecture, star-filled skies, nocturnal urban scenes, and nudes, with particular emphasis on Ruff’s most recent work and, more broadly, on his engagement with the visual production of the digital age—a subject he began investigating in the 1990s. The book features previously unpublished essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Daniel Birnbaum, and Giorgio Verzotti. It also includes a comprehensive exhibition chronology, biographical and bibliographical notes, an extensive anthology of writings on the artist edited by Wim Beeren, with contributions by Per Bj. Boym, Boris von Brauchitsch, Ian Brunskill, Régis Durand, Marc Freidus, Reinhold Happel, Jacques Herzog, Julian Heynen, Michel Houellebecq, Jörg Johnen, Eva Karcher, Valeria Liebermann, Annelie Pohlen, David Rimanelli, Michael Stoeber, and Matthias Winzen, together with conversations and interviews conducted by Daniel Birnbaum, Max Dax, Stephan Dillemuth, Isabelle Graw, and Friederike Wappler.