Gursky: Apartment
11:39His images give a flat perspective to a vast landscape, they have an abstract feel to them. This careful structuring is what Gursky is famed for; his heavily photoshopped and abstract view of the Rhine was bought for £2.7 Million, making it the most expensive photograph to date. However, the work is not solely abstract such as the work of Peit Mondrian's primary colour compositions, Gursky's work contains a degree of intimacy, as it is an image of where people live, through the windows residents lives can be seen. This voyeuristic aspect to this series is what links well to my work and the work of Anne-Laure Maison.
Gursky's view of modern existence tests the relationship between the individual, and their surroundings; displayed his dispassionate opinion of modernism through repetitive panoramas, much like Shizuka Yokomizo tests the boundary between herself 'one' and the 'other' in her series 'Dear Stranger'.
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