Andreas Gursky
By: with contributions by Katharina Fritsch, Andreas Gursky, Ralph Rugoff, Gerald Schröder, Brian Sholis and Jeff Wall
Contributors: Rugoff, Ralph, 1957- curator, writer of foreword, writer of added commentary; Schröder, Gerald (Lecturer in art and design), writer of added commentary; Sholis, Brian, writer of added commentary; Wall, Jeff, 1946- interviewer; Fritsch, Katharina, 1956- witer of supplementary textual content; Hayward Gallery; Steidl Verlag
Edition: Second edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781853323478; 9783958293922
Subjects: Photographers; Exhibitions; Landscape photography; Criticism and interpretation; Interviews; Themes, motives; Artistic Photography
Work titles: Photographs
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.
Notes: "First edition January 2018"--Colophon.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Andreas Gursky" at Hayward Gallery, London, 25 January - 22 April 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and a works list.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Ralph Rugoff; title: Andreas Gursky: Four Decades  -- Ralph Rugoff; title: The 'Authentic Image of the Rhine': A Photographic Icon by Andreas Gursky  -- Gerald Schröder; title: Andreas Gursky in Conversation with Jeff Wall  -- Jeff Wall; title: the Order of Things -- Brian Sholis.