Gursky, born on January 15th 1955 is German photographer and artist that has most famously used high format cameras to hugely detailed images. As seen above in his image ’99 cent’, he also captures lots of colour in his work and often uses high points of view. Gursky lays claim to the most expensive image sold at $4.3m of the ‘Rhine II’. To fully experience the detail of his work its best to view his pieces in galleries and exhibitions usually at sizes such as 6×10 feet in size. The main idea behind his work is to show the audience things that they usually wouldn’t notice. For example, here in ’99 cent’, when you go to the supermarket, you go into survival mode and only go for and see the things that are a necessity to you, the idea of the piece, with all the colour is to show the audience from this higher point of view, things that perhaps they had not noticed previously.
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