Profile: Andreas Gursky
Affiliated Movements: Op (Optical) Art, Contemporary Art. Minimalism, Earth Art
Affiliated Artists:
Jan Dibbets
Walter De Maria
Richard Serra
Robert Smithson
* The placement of other artists in the same categoryis purely for didactic purposes - any number alternate criteria could result in a different choice. This list is chosen by suggesting other artists, mostly working at the same point in time and whose work might evoke similar questions in the viewer. |
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 Andreas Gursky , 99 Cent, 1999.
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| German visual artist Andreas Gursky is recognized for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs, often using an arial vantage point. Prior to the 1990s, Gursky did not digitally manipulate his photos, but in more recent years, Gursky openly discusses his dependence on computers to edit and enhance his pictures, as well as create spaces larger than the subjects captured.Critic Calvin Tomkins described the experience of confronting one of Gursky's large scale prints, "The first time I saw photographs by Andreas Gursky... I had the disorienting sensation that something was happening—happening to me, I suppose, although it felt more generalized than that. Gursky's huge, panoramic color prints—some of them up to six feet high by ten feet long—had the presence, the formal power, and in several cases the majestic aura of nineteenth-century landscape paintings, without losing any of their meticulously detailed immediacy as photographs. Their subject matter was the contemporary world, seen dispassionately and from a distance." As of 2007, Gursky holds the record for highest price paid at auction for a single photographic image. His 99 Cent II, Diptych, sold for USD $3.3 million at Sotheby's, London. |
 Andreas Gursky, Pyongyang I, 2007.
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 Andreas Gursky, Pyongyang V, 2007.
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Reference Articles
Andreas Gursky on Wikipedia
Andreas Gursky at MoMA
Andreas Gursky article fromNew York Magazine
Andreas Gursky at Spruth Magers
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