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
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.
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.
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