Portraiture - Thomas Ruff

For my second artist I have chosen to look at is Thomas Ruff, who is known to take portraits in the style that they remind you of passports. The image below is a typical portrait shot for Thomas Ruff. On the face there is no expression, it is just blank and the framing is quite standard as well and matches his others, where there is either only a small space at the top or the head is slightly cut off and cropped just below the shoulders. Like his other portraits, it's a white, somewhat grey-ish background. I'm undecided whether I like his images as I'm not sure if I like the style, I don't think he quite captures who the person is as their photos are all taken in the same way and have the same look. However this may be what he wanted, to create a body of work and to suggest that we are all the same in some way, all human.

Found the image below on this site. Photographer Thomas Ruff.
 http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/05/theory-daniel-birnbaum-on-thomas-ruff.html