Andreas Gursky
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Andreas Gursky (1955 - ) is a German photographer known for the highly textured feel of his enormous photographs often using a high point of view. He uses computers to edit his pictures to create something with a larger space than the subject he photographed. He holds the record for contemporary prints with Untitled V which went under the hammer at USD560,000. He received a strong influence from his teachers, Hilla and Bernd Becher. Their distinctive method of systematically cataloging industrial machinery is similarly found in Gursky's methodical approach.
Prior to the mid nineteen nineties, Gursky did not digitally manipulate his images.
Gursky famously took a picture at the "Dance Valley" festival in Amsterdam in 1995. It depicts revellers facing a DJ stand in a large arena, with strobe lighting effects. The smoke pouring out looks like a hand holding the crowd in stasis. Since he took that picture, the only music that Gursky listens to is Techno because he says, the simple symmetry of it echoe's his own work while playing to a deeper more visceral emotion. [citation needed]
