Endless flatness…
Andreas deliver his thought of world through such sober, majestic image, employing panoramic view and digital aid and detailed like nineteenth-century landscape paintings. Easily attracted to the each meticulous details and finally exhausted by it as a whole.
Andreas Gursky born in Leipzig in 1955, about Gursky’s photography learning process, the most crucial period must be when he studied at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie under and influenced by conceptual photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. Becher’s ojective style, “They shot only on overcast days, so as to avoid shadows, and early in the morning during the seasons of spring and fall. Objects included barns, water towers, oal tipples, cooling towers, grain elevators, coal bunkers, coke ovens, oil refineries, blast furnaces, gas tanks, storage silos, and warehouses.”
image source http://coilhouse.net/2008/07/typography-from-typology/
Following Becher’s style, Andreas start with black and white photo and small image but in 1980s he employed colour film to make image of people in leisure, like hiking and swimming as tiny protagonists in a vast landscape. Since 1990s, he focuses on commerce and tourism, depict burgeoning market, factory to landscape, architecture influenced under globalization and industrialization. His work earn the representative of a contemporary zeitgeist. By using digital tool to alter the photo before printing, his images achieve a surreal sense that for me hardly to believe this is the world we live in.
image source http://www.moma.org
Andreas Gursky. Chromogenic color print.
6' 9 1/2" x 11' (207 x 337 cm)
©2001 Andreas Gursky.
Andreas deliver his thought of world through such sober, majestic image, employing panoramic view and digital aid and detailed like nineteenth-century landscape paintings. Easily attracted to the each meticulous details and finally exhausted by it as a whole.
Andreas Gursky born in Leipzig in 1955, about Gursky’s photography learning process, the most crucial period must be when he studied at Düsseldorf Kunstakademie under and influenced by conceptual photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. Becher’s ojective style, “They shot only on overcast days, so as to avoid shadows, and early in the morning during the seasons of spring and fall. Objects included barns, water towers, oal tipples, cooling towers, grain elevators, coal bunkers, coke ovens, oil refineries, blast furnaces, gas tanks, storage silos, and warehouses.”
image source http://coilhouse.net/2008/07/typography-from-typology/
Following Becher’s style, Andreas start with black and white photo and small image but in 1980s he employed colour film to make image of people in leisure, like hiking and swimming as tiny protagonists in a vast landscape. Since 1990s, he focuses on commerce and tourism, depict burgeoning market, factory to landscape, architecture influenced under globalization and industrialization. His work earn the representative of a contemporary zeitgeist. By using digital tool to alter the photo before printing, his images achieve a surreal sense that for me hardly to believe this is the world we live in.
image source http://www.moma.org
Andreas Gursky. Chromogenic color print.
6' 9 1/2" x 11' (207 x 337 cm)
©2001 Andreas Gursky.
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