So many parallels can be drawn to the Bechers' and everything that's come out of the Dusseldorf school, esthetically, but Gursky's work is fundamentally different. I like the tension between what seems to be a documentary style photograph, at first sight, only to realize it's a constructed image - one that's still more realistic about current times. Gursky, you're playing with our minds!
I saw Gursky's work for the first time in 1999 at the Serpentine Gallery in London and was immediately blown away and became a huge fan. I saw another exhibition in 2002 in Beaubourg, and a few pictures at the Tate Modern a few years later (I haven't been to London since the Brexit).
Fascinating. His images on first view reduce humanity to mere objects without personality. Until you look closer. I especially liked the Mondrian like apartment block. Thank you for a great video.
I cannot continue past 5:51 when the female commentator states "Utah" as "one shot, unlike the previous montages we've been looking at". These are images are probably the most obviously manipulated.
ANDREAS GURSKY IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS LARGE COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS, WHICH ARE CRAMMED WITH TOO MUCH INFORMATION. HE HAD A MAJOR EXHIBITION AT THE POMPIDOU IN PARIS.
makes you wonder... perhaps the simplest, most honest art is kept purposefully inaccessible to the majority working class, by putting an absurd price tag on it.
I am going to sound rude here but the photos of the supermarket and factory interior aren't a Gursky invention. Let's be honest, these locations were already looking the way they did, all he did was take a photo. Does this mean, anyone who walked in after him and made the same photo is just as important. If he set the shot up maybe, but truth is......he just did what anyone else did and society seems to think its AMAZING.....its not. Even Ansel Adams, everyone makes him out to be the be all and end all of landscape photography. He isn't and never was and never will be. He just happened to be taking photos and showing people when nobody else was bothering. When wannabe landscape photographers refer to Adam's work for inspiration, its actually cringe material.
So many parallels can be drawn to the Bechers' and everything that's come out of the Dusseldorf school, esthetically, but Gursky's work is fundamentally different. I like the tension between what seems to be a documentary style photograph, at first sight, only to realize it's a constructed image - one that's still more realistic about current times. Gursky, you're playing with our minds!
I saw Gursky's work for the first time in 1999 at the Serpentine Gallery in London and was immediately blown away and became a huge fan. I saw another exhibition in 2002 in Beaubourg, and a few pictures at the Tate Modern a few years later (I haven't been to London since the Brexit).
Fascinating. His images on first view reduce humanity to mere objects without personality. Until you look closer. I especially liked the Mondrian like apartment block. Thank you for a great video.
Thanks for your thoughtful observation of Gurksy's photography and for the appreciation.
Thank you for introducing these artworks.
Please feel free to post constructive comments about the art of Andreas Gursky.
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I cannot continue past 5:51 when the female commentator states "Utah" as "one shot, unlike the previous montages we've been looking at". These are images are probably the most obviously manipulated.
Do you know the print type and paper used for the Gursky photos appearing in this video? Thanks.
I’ve heard it’s chemical C-Prints face mounted to plexiglas.
ANDREAS GURSKY IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS LARGE COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS, WHICH ARE CRAMMED WITH TOO MUCH INFORMATION. HE HAD A MAJOR EXHIBITION AT THE POMPIDOU IN PARIS.
99 Cents was made... of course in ... 99! (not 2009)
Thanks for pointing that out. I thought I was going insane, as i remember discussing this piece with a colleague around 2000.
makes you wonder... perhaps the simplest, most honest art is kept purposefully inaccessible to the majority working class, by putting an absurd price tag on it.
You are suffering from Paranoid Personality Disorder, seek help
making it important by turning the simple into the complex missed the meaning of the work
why its expensive; its not beautiful to display in the house;;i prefer Ansel Adams or Michael Kenna style
You will grow up one day and see the light
Adams is for newbies, when you learn more you will seek deeper work than his tired mountain views.
I am so confused by this industry lol
I am going to sound rude here but the photos of the supermarket and factory interior aren't a Gursky invention. Let's be honest, these locations were already looking the way they did, all he did was take a photo. Does this mean, anyone who walked in after him and made the same photo is just as important. If he set the shot up maybe, but truth is......he just did what anyone else did and society seems to think its AMAZING.....its not. Even Ansel Adams, everyone makes him out to be the be all and end all of landscape photography. He isn't and never was and never will be. He just happened to be taking photos and showing people when nobody else was bothering. When wannabe landscape photographers refer to Adam's work for inspiration, its actually cringe material.
don't worry, you don't sound rude. But i will say; things seem obvious or simple after the fact.
How to kill a photograph by overexplaining it.
true that, man
Wrong