Andreas Gursky Quotes

Andreas Gursky — German Artist born on January 15, 1955,

Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and Professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. Gursky shares a studio with Laurenz Berges, Thomas Ruff and Axel Hütte on the Hansaallee, in Düsseldorf. The building, a former electricity station, was transformed into an artists studio and living quarters, in 2001, by architects Herzog & de Meuron, of Tate Modern fame. In 2010-11, the architects worked again on the building, designing a gallery in the basement... (wikipedia)

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

My father did advertising photography.