Andreas Gursky

artists began to realise that photography was a valid form of art for portraying personal expression and to exhibit aesthetic qualities. Under this new understanding, photography began to take on some of the attributes of more traditional art and become more painterly. Though, there seems a battle raging always between realism and expression in photographic artworks, between the intrinsic nature of the medium and the ability to use it creatively. Contemporary German photo artists Andreas Gursky’s large format works epitomises this struggle, challenging viewers to engage with his work on a level beyond the documentary whilst retaining some of its qualities thematically. In examining the photographic artworks of Gursky, it is integral to first look back at his development, the formative years that would come to mould and shape him as an artist. He was born in 1955 to a family that was already embedded in the photographic landscape with his father and grandfather working in commercial photography.1 In 1980 Gursky undertook an education at the hands of another influential photography pair, Bernd & Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie. The husband and wife team produced a series of photographs beginning in the late 1950s of industrial German buildings. The documentary connotations are clear; their intention was to preserve these machine-age buildings as they began to be demolished in the post-war period. It was a personal project of sorts, focusing their attention on…

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…

The article “Andreas Gursky and the Contemporary Sublime” by Alix Ohlin, does a nice job illustration the work and purpose of Andreas Gursky’s artwork. His ability to display the human experience in our modern age globalized world is something that should be admired. One of Andreas Gursky’s creativity is his ability to display his artwork in a micro-macro perspective to give the viewer a different feel for the image. “This tension between micro and macro, one of the operating principles of his…

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