Andreas Gursky is a fine art photographer who's work can be seen all over the world from America - Norway, Italy - Germany. In his earlier years as a photographer Gursky was quite traditional, as like many others from hes generation he started out creating small black and white print focusing on documentary. Later in his life he shifted to a more contemporary style and produced large scale coloured images, where the subject matter was often landscapes or architecture.
Gursky has achieved some truly stunning images, with a combination of multiple photos merged together or through digital manipulation and you would never guess that some of his work is anything but a simple photograph. In merging and manipulating photos his work can both heighten a place's appearance or in some cases he can create entirely made up views, which are non-existent.
"The Rhine II" (1999)
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I pacifically looked at this piece as I felt it was ideal for my lens based project on "emulate or parodies a fine art photographer's work" as I really liked the idea of taking a series of photographs and merging them together to heighten a places natural beauty. To create "The Rhine II" Gursky took a series of photographs of the river Rhine and edited them on a computer, were he digitally removed buildings. This manipulation enhanced the river's beauty and also avoided the image being a photograph of a specific place, giving a real abstract painterly feel to it with numerous blocks of horizontal colours of a contemporary landscape.This print is also the most expensive photo ever sold at going for £2.7 million.
This is my piece inspired by Gursky that you can find on my lens based and digital media project label, which also explains how I created it and why Gursky influenced me so much.
