Andreas Gursky was born on January 15, 1955 in Leipzig, Germany. He is a German photographer and a professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, which is as well in Germany.
This photographer is best known for his monumental digitally manipulated photographs which portray various aspects such as consumer culture and busyness of modern life, resulting in dramatic images that mark the line between the representation and the abstract. Gursky began photographing in black and white with a hand-held Leica camera, but as any other kid, he decided to go against the trend and began using a larger camera to work with color on a tripod, using a 100 ASA Fuji film in two large-format Linhof cameras.
Throughout his career in photography, most of his released …show more content…
After analyzing all his expositions, it is more than clear that most of his images are shot from an elevated angle, therefore, allowing the viewers to experience the scene in its full proportions. “Sold at auction for over $4.3 million”, with the intense pattern involved in his images, it is understandable that his images have been the most expensive world-wide.
“Rhein II”, the most expensive image was taken in 1999 by Gursky, this image depicts absolute balance in nature, which is almost unrealistic, the lines balancing the image “reinforce the feeling of strength and earth”, therefore giving me a sense of being completely organized. As the lines extend to the frame, it makes the audience finish the image, for example, for various individuals, this image may go on forever. Also, to successfully reveal its inherently harmonious
Alejandra Ocampo
6 th Period
2/21/18
sum of individual parts where objects, Andreas Gursky must utilize strata, line, geometry, color, and form, as well as a composition, a scale, and a tone. By carefully observing his images, I …show more content…
But most importantly, his work represents the idea of globalism which includes, people, civilizations, human presence and activity. His architectural seed of such designs is that every viewer should have a reasonable view irrespective of the place where they are standing, the idea of portraying an empty picture is impossible for Andreas
Gursky. For example, “99 Cents is astonishing because it portrays something we see every day, and although it is something we could see every day, it is something that we never see because individuals are so focused in surviving and going for a quick run to the store. But, if we look even further, this image depicts the sad reality of the world we have created, the world full of color and patterns that we are forced to ignore, and Gursky forces individuals to look at it.
“I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.”
Andreas Gursky has become the most significant photographer in the 21 st century. Although, many issues have aroused due to Gursky digitally enhanced images, not following the
This photographer is best known for his monumental digitally manipulated photographs which portray various aspects such as consumer culture and busyness of modern life, resulting in dramatic images that mark the line between the representation and the abstract. Gursky began photographing in black and white with a hand-held Leica camera, but as any other kid, he decided to go against the trend and began using a larger camera to work with color on a tripod, using a 100 ASA Fuji film in two large-format Linhof cameras.
Throughout his career in photography, most of his released …show more content…
After analyzing all his expositions, it is more than clear that most of his images are shot from an elevated angle, therefore, allowing the viewers to experience the scene in its full proportions. “Sold at auction for over $4.3 million”, with the intense pattern involved in his images, it is understandable that his images have been the most expensive world-wide.
“Rhein II”, the most expensive image was taken in 1999 by Gursky, this image depicts absolute balance in nature, which is almost unrealistic, the lines balancing the image “reinforce the feeling of strength and earth”, therefore giving me a sense of being completely organized. As the lines extend to the frame, it makes the audience finish the image, for example, for various individuals, this image may go on forever. Also, to successfully reveal its inherently harmonious
Alejandra Ocampo
6 th Period
2/21/18
sum of individual parts where objects, Andreas Gursky must utilize strata, line, geometry, color, and form, as well as a composition, a scale, and a tone. By carefully observing his images, I …show more content…
But most importantly, his work represents the idea of globalism which includes, people, civilizations, human presence and activity. His architectural seed of such designs is that every viewer should have a reasonable view irrespective of the place where they are standing, the idea of portraying an empty picture is impossible for Andreas
Gursky. For example, “99 Cents is astonishing because it portrays something we see every day, and although it is something we could see every day, it is something that we never see because individuals are so focused in surviving and going for a quick run to the store. But, if we look even further, this image depicts the sad reality of the world we have created, the world full of color and patterns that we are forced to ignore, and Gursky forces individuals to look at it.
“I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.”
Andreas Gursky has become the most significant photographer in the 21 st century. Although, many issues have aroused due to Gursky digitally enhanced images, not following the