Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky (1955) is a German photographer known for the highly textured feel of his enormous photographs often using a high point of view.

Gursky received a strong influence from his teachers, Hilla and Bernd Becher, who are known for their distinctive method of systematically cataloging industrial machinery. This method is similarly found in Gursky's methodical approach to his photography.

Before the mid 1990s, Gursky did not digitally manipulate his images. Today however, Gursky uses computers to edit his pictures, and creates art in a larger space than the subject photographed. As of February 2007, Gursky holds the record for the highest price paid for a photograph for his work 99 Cent II, Diptych, which sold for GBP 1.7 million (USD 3.3 million) at Sotheby's, London. [1]

Gursky's photograph of the Dance Valley festival near Amsterdam in 1995, depicts revelers facing a DJ stand in a large arena, with strobe lighting effects. The smoke pouring out looks like a hand holding the crowd in stasis. After producing that photo, Gursky has said that the only music he listens to is Techno music because its simple symmetry echoes his own work while playing to a deeper, more visceral emotion.

Andrew Gursky was a very emotional man. He loves to draw unicorns and pleasant ponies. He also has a discreet education on the function of the penis. He is interested in continuing his education on the study of the male reproductive organs. He thought, that hopefully, he could become the world's smartest giraffe.

See also

• List of most expensive photographs
• Aerial landscape art

Exhibitions

• 1989 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld; Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1992 Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
• 1994 Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
• 1995 Portikus Frankfurt; Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; Tate Liverpool, England
• 1998 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Houston, USA
• 1999 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
• 2000 Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Busch-Reisinger Museum, Havard University, Cambridge, USA
• 2001 Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France;
• 2003 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.
• 2005 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain
• 2007 Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
• 2007 White Cube, London, England
• 2007 Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
• 2007 Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2007 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, U.S.

External links

• 2001 Exhibition of Andreas Gursky @ MOMA.
• Gursky's "99 Cent" Prints Fetch Millions At Auction November 29, 2006
• A Podcast Considering the work of Andreas Gursky.
• A.Gursky - Solo Exhibition 2007 in Munich
• Andreas Gursky: from a World Spirit's-eye view
• Portrait of the artist by the Goethe-Institut