A student of Bernd and Hilda Becher, Andreas Gursky makes tightly: composed, highly formalized images of contemporary urban life: a hotel lobby, a dance floor, store displays, Hong Kong skyscrapers. His recurring motif is that of vast urban landscapes in which people appear as ant-like against their, architectural backdrops. The result is a continual feeling, upon viewing his photographs, of the relative smallness of our individual selves and also of our loneliness in the "public" spaces we have bought for ourselves. His ...
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A student of Bernd and Hilda Becher, Andreas Gursky makes tightly: composed, highly formalized images of contemporary urban life: a hotel lobby, a dance floor, store displays, Hong Kong skyscrapers. His recurring motif is that of vast urban landscapes in which people appear as ant-like against their, architectural backdrops. The result is a continual feeling, upon viewing his photographs, of the relative smallness of our individual selves and also of our loneliness in the "public" spaces we have bought for ourselves. His work is compelling both for photographers and for architects: his are pictures that capture the strange decentered geometry of our industrialized and commercialized urban spaces. This carefully produced book -- with crystal screen separations -- shows three years of work, 1994 to 1997, and includes an essay by Gijs van Tuyl.
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(GURSKY, ANDREAS). Gursky, Andreas, Veit Gorner & Annelie Lutgens. ANDREAS GURSKY: FOTOGRAFIEN 1994-1998. Wolfsburg & Ostfildern, GERMANY: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg & Hatje/Cantz, 1998. First Edition. Oblong Folio. Pictorial Boards. Catalogue Raisonné. Fine/No Jacket-As Issued. 84pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Gerard Hadders, BLH. Text in English and German. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in conjunction with a 1998 retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (that subsequently traveled to the Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Serpentine Gallery, London, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Castello di Rivoli, and the Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon), this elegantly designed, oversized hardbound volume is a full catalogue raisonné reproducing each of Andreas Gursky's large-scale photographic works executed between January 1994 and December 1997. A most handsome example still bearing the publisher's printed wraparound band along with the text booklet in parallel English and German laid in, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value-we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-89322-355-X Inventory Number: 019743.