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- Art expert:
Gursky’s photographic subjects have included the crowd at a 2001 Madonna show, the Kuwait stock exchange and the Stateville, Illinois Correctional Facility.
- Art expert:
In the artist’s photographs, the actions of individual subjects are dwarfed by the monumental size of the frame. Gursky has said, “I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.”
- Art expert:
In order to create such large and all-encompassing prints, Gursky will combine multiple sheets of paper, join negatives of numerous shots to gain a panorama perspective, or will manufacture his works digitally.
- Art expert:
Gursky’s parents were commercial photographers, though the artist worked as a taxi driver before becoming a photographer himself.
- Centre Georges Pompidou
- Andreas Gursky
- December 1 2007
- $8000 to $12000
- $8125
