A German photographer, born in 1955, Andreas Gursky has established a name for himself as one of the "largest" photographers around, using the subjects of architecture and color landscapes in his immense photography. Gursky, the son of a commercial photographer, had not even stepped foot into the realm of digital photo editing until after around 1990. His images currently are enhanced to show the popping colors and meshing of patterns amongst chaos and order around the world. Gursky focuses his work on these large industrial spaces like the ones shown above. The repetition he uses, the popping colors and the completely orderly and beautifully aligned edges make the natural chaos in his images simple beautiful and astounding. The coolest part? These aren't exactly small pieces of art work. Some of Gursky's photographs, when printed, can reach scales as large as ten feet in length. One of Gursky's highest accomplishments was the honor as being titled as the creator of the highest paying photograph sold at an auction as of 2007. Pretty big honor if you ask me...
I really enjoy Gursky's work, and not just from a aesthetic stand point. His photographs, while I have not had the opportunity to view any of them in person, I can only imagine that the immense scale increases the beauty of the images. He manages to photograph such simply events, such simple compositions and yet perfect the chaos in them to create an image that is no longer just an apartment complex or a crowd at a dance festival, but a beautiful work of ink on a enormous piece of paper.
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