Similar in scope to the landscape paintings, Gursky’s photographs capture built and natural environments. Studying under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf whose penchant for systematically documenting buildings and industrial machinery is thought to have influenced the photography aesthetics, Gursky’s early works were heavily influenced by this conceptual aesthetics philosophy. The move and the birth of his own style, developed with the artists production of large-scale photographs with an almost-manic documentation of detail. Today, his work continues to depict scenes from immediately recognizable spaces, ranging from images f department stores, football fields, to the German Parliament and the Chicago Board of Trade.