Invited by his Italian gallerist Lia Rumma, Thomas Ruff engaged himself in 2002/03 with the “Mercato del pesce” in Napels, built between 1929 and 1932. The building had been designed by the Neapolitan architect Luigi Cosenza (1905–1984) and is one of the landmarks of “Architettura razionale,” an Italian architectural style which is both oriented towards the international modernist movement and committed to classical antiquity. Similar to the series Herzog & de Meuron and l.m.v.d.r., Ruff made use of all the techniques used to date: In addition to his own photographs (interior and exterior shots), he manipulated images and processed black-and-white photographs from archives.