Over the course of his three-decade career, Thomas Ruff has taken up many approaches to photography in his investigation into the status of the image in contemporary culture. In Transforming Photography, the artist presents new work that continues his ongoing probe into the history, processes, techniques, and technology of photography, redefining the medium's conceptual possibilities. He has investigated various photographic genres, including portraiture, the nude, and landscape and architectural photography, using both analog and digital technologies, and culling imagery from scientific archives, print media, and the internet. Presented here is a selection of Ruff's best-known works, as well as the newer Tripe/Ruff series, begun in 2018, which draws on negatives of India and Burma taken in the 1850s by Captain Linnaeus Tripe, an officer in the East India Company. Also included is a conversation between Ruff and Okwui Enwezor, which took place at Haus der Kunst in Munich in connection with the artist's retrospective then on view. Published on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at David Zwirner, Hong Kong, in 2019, the book is also available in a bilingual English/traditional Chinese edition.