andreas gursky

I am not exactly sure - I think it will be one of the better Hasselblad's or suchlike. Which would put me back a fair few grand. I am sure he shoots Medium/Large Format, because the detail he gets is impossible on 35mm, and I have something that I can remember seeing that reminds me he doesn't like digital.

― ___ (___), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Gursky used to use (and may still) a 5x7 view camera, and then combined/altered the images digitally.

(sub-topic, unless you've got loads of cash, there's no reason to buy a top-shelf MF camera. Printing at realistic sizes, you're going to see very little, if any, difference between a new Hasselblad and a used Bronica, or even an older Rolleiflex or Mamiya TLR. At the point where your negative is 6cm*6cm, technique and tripods become more important than the lens, and all of them are more important than the body. Assuming the body is in working condition, of course.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

That colorful stock echange shot upthread is mind-boggling.
Ditto the boxing one and the madonna one (not featured here)

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The stock exchange seems to have color-enhanced itself somewhere between reality and my screen; I saw it at the Chicago MoCA and it wasn't quite so blinding.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 14 June 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

lovin this thread. I've had trouble finding good Gursky images online.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My god these are amazing. How much are they edited, Milo?

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

thats a good question, how much are they edited ?

― anthony, Monday, 14 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Aside from combining and retouching, he uses it create symetry and new points-of-view. But not all the time.

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-Untitled V sold at auction for $600k+ in 2002. And these are traditional c-prints, I don't know how they keep the image stable for long enough to make it that valuable. There's a chance the image could be gone in 50 years.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://212.91.251.238/artwork_images/706/13477.jpg

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"This effect (most obvious in works like 99 Cent and Rhein II, 1999) is achieved by photographing a scene of deep space, scanning the image into a computer and dividing it into horizontal bands, adjusting objects near the vanishing point so that their resolution matches that of objects in the foreground, and then pasting the whole thing back into its original configuration. The results are twofold: First, atmospheric perspective is eliminated; second, things that originally lay one behind the other now lie next to each other on the same spatial plane. At the same time, singlepoint perspective remains intact, creating a disturbing sense of spatial dislocation and an even more disturbing gap between what we think we're looking at and what we're actually seeing."
from a none-too-favorable Artforum article

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

wait...artforum was mean about something
!!

― anthony, Thursday, 17 June 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmmmmmm

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 June 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that CBOT photo.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

i worry that his work is really kind of cliched, and the lvoe that is here comes from a sort of aethetic battering.

― anthony, Thursday, 14 April 2005 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything as beautiful as Gursky's work will eventually become a little cliched. I love his photos unreservedly and unashamedly!

― Spencer Chow in Rio, Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i have that book, jody. it is a little.. disappointing.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I have that book and I always come back to it. Got it at the big retrospective in Paris two years ago. Sweet sweet

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

In the photographs of his that I like the most, it is the architecture on display that does it for me more than anything else. The fact that most folks seem to think River Rhine and 99 Cent represent the best he has to offer kind of makes me shy away from the whole thing, I hate both of those. Most of his crowd shots I was originally fascinated by but having spent the last year living on trains and constantly surrounded by urban environments they just seem, well, misanthropic if anything. This is not a Gursky photograph:
http://www.cdjewell.net/Albums/RosslynHeights/flies_day09.jpg

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 14 April 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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