Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gurskyis a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. Gursky shares a studio with Laurenz Berges, Thomas Ruff and Axel Hütte on the Hansaallee, in Düsseldorf. The building, a former electricity station, was transformed into an artists studio and living quarters, in 2001, by architects Herzog & de Meuron, of Tate Modern fame. In 2010-11, the architects worked...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth15 January 1955
CountryGermany
Andreas Gursky quotes about
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
A word is worth a thousand images.
My father did advertising photography.
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.
I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.
We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.
In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.
Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe. For me it’s more a synonym. I read a picture not for what’s really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.
Vision is an intelligent form of thought