Andreas Gursky
A friend recently turned me on to Adreas Gursky’s photography. His work is absolutely breathtaking; the sort of vaguely distant quality of the images is really striking. Gursky has been working for many years but only started using computers to manipulate his photographs the ’90s. Apparently his prints range all the way up to 6 feet tall; I can’t even imagine how impressive the detail must be at that scale. You can find some more of his work at the Matthew Marks Gallery site or via Google Images. Truly inspiring.
Also, I really need to go to wherever that pool is. It looks like some sort of utopian society where they somehow put Barton Springs in the middle of Amstelpark.
Via Simon Smith
UPDATE: Thanks to WZT in the comments for sharing the location of the pool in the last photo. Check it out on Google Maps.
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RA_OUL says:
December 17, 2010 at 3:45 amThis caught my attention like the sun that was shining through the thick fog this morning during my morning commute!!! The kind of work that I actually need to designate time to look and reflect on. Absolutely golden Scott!
Scott says:
December 17, 2010 at 4:27 amRaoul-
Yeah man, amazing stuff. The aerial desert shots (Bahrain) actually reminded me a lot of our fellow Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud.
Emanuel says:
December 17, 2010 at 5:49 amAbsolutely amazing stuff.. I thought the one from Bahrain was a painting, it looks so surreal. I love the one before the swimming pool, for some reason I can stare at it for hours. Golden indeed, thanks for sharing.
RA_OUL says:
December 17, 2010 at 6:21 amWow!!! Your totally right Scott! I just recently learned of Thiebaud’s work during a lecture this semester. Right when I read what you said I had a visual of a specific work of his that looked just like one of the aerial shots above and low and behold there it was.
http://www.writedesignonline.com/resources/design/rules/wayne-thiebaud.jpg
wzt says:
December 17, 2010 at 6:37 amScott, copy/paste this into google.maps: 51.303536,6.844255 and you will find THE POOL
love your blog. cheers from ger
Chris says:
December 17, 2010 at 6:52 amI ve been to a Gursky exhibition here in Munich a few years ago. Indeed all his image are enormous in size. Billboard size but with a stunning quality. Never seen images that big with so much detail and depth at the same time. If u ever have the chance to visit one of his exhibtions I can recommend to go and check it.
Erik Holmberg says:
December 17, 2010 at 8:03 amBeautiful work. I’m instantly drawn by the color palette.
The blues and greens and muted tones suck me in.
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Salemid says:
December 17, 2010 at 9:13 amI’m speechless. I cannot believe you guys posted Gursky on here. You guys are really broadening your range. Well done.
Phil says:
December 17, 2010 at 9:48 amLike Chris I had also been to the exhibiton in Munich – it was truely breathtaking standing in front of these pictures – I spent hours in that gallery
Alex says:
December 17, 2010 at 11:21 amAmazing. Someone, someday I will have that first Schiphol shot on my wall.
thehalvo says:
December 17, 2010 at 12:08 pm@WZT Thanks for sharing the google.map location. That was great.
Scott says:
December 17, 2010 at 1:16 pmYeah thanks WZT, I updated the post with a link.
Raoul-
yeah, Thiebaud’s work is incredible as well. They had a lot of it at the SFMOMA over the summer. It was pretty amazing to see in person. And yeah, that piece in particular is really reminiscent of that Bahrain stuff.
Alex, yeah.. that will have to be on my wall too. I am assuming it would be cheaper to just buy digital Hasselblad, fly to Amsterdam, try to take the exact same picture, then print it out here. I know it wouldn’t be the same, but hey, free camera.
Simon Smith says:
December 17, 2010 at 1:33 pmGurksy is an old fav.
If you like him check out a recent discovery who seems to be in the same camp. His big prints can be seen at Bar Agricole or Slanted Door here in San Francisco.
http://thomaswinz.com/html/port1A.html
empty says:
December 17, 2010 at 1:45 pmwow! that pool is incredible!
wzt says:
December 17, 2010 at 2:42 pmwhats goin on, ive post here befor hours and now only 1 comment?
wzt says:
December 17, 2010 at 2:47 pmahh wrong link. here we go.
@ SALEMID: we dont broadening we blow it!
@ THEHALVO: come to germany :) we have a lot of fine festivals in the summer, sweden made it years befor us but … we finaly make the pace
@SCOTT: i have to thank, tons of superb infos, msgs and creativity over month, years …
Ryan says:
December 17, 2010 at 7:30 pmMan, that racetrack looks so fun.
Kjell-Roger says:
December 18, 2010 at 2:34 amYeah Scott, the work of this dude is quite amazing and thought provoking at that.
This is the kind of photography that really gets me drawn in, I believe I’ve seen some of his work before. The image of that lonely guy in the airfield is absolutely stunning.
Anonymous says:
December 18, 2010 at 9:35 pmI think there a lot of Gurskys at MoMA in NY, but the last time I went I was around 9 years old. Would love to see these prints in person.
b says:
December 19, 2010 at 1:27 pmI believe that his print “99 cent” is the most expensive photograph sold to date ($3.3 million). The bbc show ‘Genius of photography’ does a short interview with his and on his printing process. Its on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GeniusOfPhotography#p/c/178DF3C44B03525C/3/6SQCw3a9NgI
Gursky comes in about a minute into that video.
Sleep says:
December 19, 2010 at 2:59 pmIt looks like the fifth photo down is an abandoned airport runway. Mostly because of the taxi markers.
Cheers, these are really cool shots.
Noran says:
December 19, 2010 at 10:52 pmis no. 2 a photograph? whoa.
Aaron Mitchell says:
December 20, 2010 at 2:30 amI am constantly absorbed in this blog. This is just another reason to be so enthralled. The hardest thing is keeping up with the music playlists. Yet I havent heard a song I dont Like. Damn You!
sibel kekilli says:
December 21, 2010 at 8:19 amAbsolutely amazing stuff.. I thought the one from Bahrain was a painting, it looks so surreal. I love the one before the swimming pool, for some reason I can stare at it for hours. Golden indeed, thanks for sharing.
Anonymous says:
April 18, 2011 at 8:42 amCan anyone help me? I really want a print of the image of the guy on the deserted airfield-a stunning image that I love. Does anybody know the name of the image if it has one or where I can get a print from?Thanks. Inspiring blog, art and music!