#2 Andreas Gursky

<Rhein II, 1999> (81 x 140 in)

Can you believe a photograph was sold for more than 4 million dollar? He was a photographer who sold the most expensive photo in the world before the record was broken last year. (Peter Lik's Phantaom, $ 6.5 million)

< Chicago Board of Trade II, 1999 > (73 x 95 in.)

Andreas Gursky (1955 - , Germany) makes really big photographs. His photographs are composed of many elements such as people in the stock market or mass game, I can feel a sense of rhythm. If I look his pictures with the actual size, I might feel vastness like looking astrophotograph.

< Pyongyang V, 2007 >

The perspective in many of Gursky’s photographs is drawn from an elevated vantage point. This position enables the viewer to encounter scenes, encompassing both centre and periphery, which are ordinarily beyond reach.

<99 Cent II Diptychon, 2001> (207 x 307 cm)

In order to achieve the desired effect, he employed digital techniques to assemble the two photographs and to alter and add details. For example, he digitally erased buildings on the far side of the river from his picture Rhine II. 


"For me, vision is an intelligent form of thought"