GURSKY & SEKULA: “Recasting Subjectivity” (2005)

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Siemens, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1991, by Andreas Gursky Recasting Subjectivity – Globalisation and the Photography of Andreas Gursky and Allan Sekula By Zanny Begg, Third Text, Vol. 19, Issue 6, November, 2005 Globalisation is a complex process that is partially governed and directed, partially the result of unpredictable and cumulative changes, which is unifying the world under the neo-liberal economic model but also fragmenting the experi…

GURSKY & SEKULA: “Recasting Subjectivity” (2005)

ANDREAS GURSKY: “New York Stock Exchange(1991)

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      Executed in 1991, Andreas Gursky’s New York Stock Exchange is one of the earliest examples and, at the time, largest of Andreas Gursky’s seminal series of photographs of global stock exchanges which he continues to this day. The original inspiration and philosophy for the series derived from the stock market collapses of the late 1980s and their subsequent impact on the world. Here, for the first time, the wor…

ANDREAS GURSKY: “New York Stock Exchange(1991)

ANDREAS GURSKY: “The Dialectics of Time – Reflections on the Work of Andreas Gursky, Omer Fast and Allen Sekula”

ANDREAS GURSKY: “The Dialectics of Time – Reflections on the Work of Andreas Gursky, Omer Fast and Allen Sekula”

ANDREAS GURSKY: “The Big Picture” (2001)

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Swimming Pool, Ratingen, 1987 By Katy Siegel & Alex Alberro, Originally published in Artforum, January 1, 2001 Consuming Vision by Katy Siegel Andreas Gursky makes really big photographs. This is the one thing about his work that everyone can agree on. Why does he do it? The answer seems obvious: to see the big picture, things too vast to take in with either the human eye or a camera fixed at a particular viewpoint (mountains, public archi…

ANDREAS GURSKY: “The Big Picture” (2001)