Gursky’s subjects –from multinational headquarters to fashion runways, a domestic interior to a political seminar– take on a scale akin to that of history painting. In so doing, Gursky gives spatial precedence to the pressing issues of our age, articulated through expansive scenes that reveal their pictorial complexity. Continue reading Andreas Gursky
Driven by an interest and insight into ‘the way that the world is constituted’, as well as what he describes as ‘the pure joy of seeing’, Gursky makes photographs that are not just depictions of places or situations, but reflections on the nature of image-making and the limits of human perception. Continue reading Andreas Gursky
photos: © Andreas Gursky/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn . + gagosian
From images of nature to cities, crowds, and products, Gursky seems to create what already exists. In his photographs variations in distance serve to emphasize contemporary truths, whereby subject matter is presented in a detailed uniformity that privileges neither foreground nor background. Continue reading Andreas Gursky
