Description
Monumental photographs by Andreas Gursky depicting globalized capitalism, mass gatherings, and contemporary landscapes. A master of the Dusseldorf School of Photography, Gursky has relied on digital manipulation since the 1990s to create images of spaces larger than the subjects photographed. His elevated vantage points reveal patterns in human activity at massive scale — stock exchanges, factories, big-box retailers, crowds. Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker called the pictures "vast, splashy, entertaining, and literally unbelievable." MoMA described his work as "a sophisticated art of unembellished observation."
