Contributions

  • Rugoff, Ralph, 1957- curator, writer of foreword, writer of added commentary - Contributor
  • Schröder, Gerald (Lecturer in art and design), writer of added commentary - Contributor
  • Sholis, Brian, writer of added commentary - Contributor
  • Wall, Jeff, 1946- interviewer - Contributor
  • Fritsch, Katharina, 1956- witer of supplementary textual content - Contributor
and 2 more
  • Hayward Gallery - Contributor
  • Steidl Verlag - Contributor

Publication

2018 - , England

Language

English

Word Count

38,500 words, Guess

Page Count

154 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101853323470
  • ISBN-103958293921
  • ISBN-139781853323478
  • ISBN-139783958293922
  • OCLC Control Number1043176253
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC779.092
  • LCCTR647 .G867 2018
  • LCCTR647 .G86 2018
and 2 more
  • LCCTR
  • LCCTR655

Description

The exhibition includes some of the artist's most well known works including Paris, Montparnasse (1993), an immense and iconic photograph showing a seemingly endless block of flats; and Rhine II (1999/2015) a sleek digitally-tweaked vision of the river as a contemporary minimalist symbol. Kamiokande (2007) featuring the vast underground water tank within the Kamioka Nucleon Decay Experiment, Japan; and May Day IV (2000/2014) depicting hundreds of revellers at Germany's long-running Mayday techno music festival. Often employing a bird's-eye perspective, these large-format pictures which rival the scale of monumental paintings boast an abundance of precisely captured details, all of which are uncannily in focus. Since the late 1980s, Gursky has depicted a broad spectrum of contemporary life including sites of commerce, industry and tourism across the globe, making pictures that draw attention to our changing relationship with the natural world and chronicle the effects of globalisation on day-to-day life.

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