Andreas Gursky was born in 1955 in Germany. He is well known for his enormous architecture and landscape photographs. Gursky is also a well known printmaker. He did not manipulate his photographs before 1990. Around 1990 he started to use digital technology for retouching and then for altering his negatives. Gurskys panoramic colour prints are sometimes up to six feet high by ten feet long. He studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie.He liked the style and method of Becher’s systematic approach to photography, creating small black and white prints. His focus is usually on unusual architecture or beautiful landscapes.
The image above is a C-print from 1997 of the Singapore stock exchange. The image is named "Singapore Börse I" and is one photograph from a set from six. This photograph is made up of people in a Singapore stock exchange. In the front of the image the people appear very large and they get smaller and smaller at the back of the image. They are so small it is as if we are looking out of an airoplane, from the sky above. For some of his works, such as architectural subjects, he moved the camera between the shots and then combined the negatives on the computer to make seamless, often panorama-like,photographs. He also uses Film cameras.
Andreeas Gursky won the the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 1998.
Gursky's work has been widely exhibited in galleries around the world.
Video'sThe image above is a C-print from 1997 of the Singapore stock exchange. The image is named "Singapore Börse I" and is one photograph from a set from six. This photograph is made up of people in a Singapore stock exchange. In the front of the image the people appear very large and they get smaller and smaller at the back of the image. They are so small it is as if we are looking out of an airoplane, from the sky above. For some of his works, such as architectural subjects, he moved the camera between the shots and then combined the negatives on the computer to make seamless, often panorama-like,photographs. He also uses Film cameras.
Andreeas Gursky won the the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 1998.
Gursky's work has been widely exhibited in galleries around the world.
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gurskyhttp://www.whitecube.com/artists/gursky/
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426117814/79513/andreas-gursky-singapore-borse-i.html
http://metroartwork.com/andreas-gursky-biography-artwork-m-87.html
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http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Photography-of-Andreas-Gursky
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