His father was a commercial photographer in Saxony.
Andreas Gursky liked the technique at a young age and decided to go to Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to study the subject. That is, he left Leipzig, in East Germany, for the Ruhr area. After finishing there, he continued at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts, where he became one of the first students of Bernd & Hilla Becher.
Already in the 1980s, Andreas was using many digital techniques to combine, enhance, and adapt his photographs. His intention has always been to document how the world is made.
He has numerous famous and enormous photographs of factories, stock exchanges, and sporting events.
The photographs of Andreas Gursky are especially striking when viewed in person. Their monumentality only becomes truly palpable on site: the enormous size of the works is not merely a format choice, but an integral part of the concept. It compels…
Andreas Gursky is the complete opposite: in the photographs where there are people, there are so many that each individual becomes insignificant. They are like pixel dots. The human bei...
Was about to make a point on the difference, but you beat me to it, duh!
Crazy, now try finding Waldo in these pictures 😮💨
