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As a schoolboy, Ruff was as fascinated by astronomy as he was by photography. To him, it therefore seemed only logical to turn the nocturnal sky into the theme for more or less abstract images that were to consist of a black surface with many white dots. Since he did not see how he would be able to achieve the quality of professional astronomic images with the photographic equipment available to him, he resolved to work with original copies of the 1,212 negatives of the “European Southern Observatory” (ESO) archive. The archive houses a collection of scientific images of the firmament in the southern hemisphere taken using a special telescope in the Andes. Ruff chose sections from these negatives (sized 29 x 29 cm) that he defined according to six different categories.
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As a schoolboy, Ruff was as fascinated by astronomy as he was by photography. To him, it therefore seemed only logical to turn the nocturnal sky into the theme for more or less abstract images that were to consist of a black surface with many white dots. Since he did not see how he would be able to achieve the quality of professional astronomic images with the photographic equipment available to him, he resolved to work with original copies of the 1,212 negatives of the “European Southern Observatory” (ESO) archive. The archive houses a collection of scientific images of the firmament in the southern hemisphere taken using a special telescope in the Andes. Ruff chose sections from these negatives (sized 29 x 29 cm) that he defined according to six different categories.
