Art I LOVE! Andreas Gursky – GO BIG!

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I love the photography of German Photographer Andreas Gursky (b. 1955).  I particularly like his methodical approach and ordered way with these huge images.  Gursky now uses digitally enhances and edits his pictures (and why not?).

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When I first started life drawing, I was a bit embarrassed and my drawings would be tiny, almost furtive!  I was told repeatedly to GO BIG!!!!! and as the embarrassment lessened, I did!

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 Some of Gursky’s pictures are 10 ft wide and 8 ft high!  Now that really is going BIG isn’t it!   Gursky takes an almost dispassionate point of view regarding his work,(in the orderliness, I mean) and YET  there is a lot of life going on in these pictures that  makes these large scale images expose a synergy and symmetry that wouldn’t otherwise be seen.

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The relationships between man and his landscape which underpins his work shows an abstract quality which also attracts me.

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Here  are two very different photographers;

Frank Meadowcroft Sutcliffe

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