| Dates: | 1955 - | | Born: | East Germany, Leipzig | | Active: | Germany | | Gender: | Male |
Contemporary German photographer dealing with issues of the urban landscape.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
A student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Gursky’s premeditated Olympian sized spectacles of color and pattern present a computer-altered zeitgeist of industrial culture that appears more real than reality. His seductively colorful, super-formalistic, and hyper-detailed hybrid compositions show everything as they catalog the phenomena of globalization. So perfectly beautiful they could hang in a corporate boardroom, yet they evoke a sense of post-modern indifference and sublime that leads us to feel inconsequential.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Galassi, Peter, 2001, Andreas Gursky, (New York: Museum of Modern Art) [Δ]
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