Photographer of the Week.

Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig Germany on January 15 1955. Andreas Gursky's father and grandfather were both successful commercial photographers. While Andreas was younger he didn't want to have much to do with photography, but changed his mind when he was in high school.

Andreas Gursky’s education has been at a number of places. Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, a fine arts academy has been home to other renowned people other than Andreas Gursky such as Werner Hilsing, Joseph Beuys, and Gerhard Richter. Other places Andreas has attended is a research facility that’s named University of Duisburg-Essen, in essen Germany from 1977 through 80, Andreas Gusrky went to Folkwang University of Arts, he studied photojournalism there and went to Dusseldorf Germany’s Art Academy in 1980 through 87.

In 2010 through 18 Andreas Gursky ended up becoming a professor at the same place for their Liberal Arts program. Andreas Gursky’s process in making photos is by shooting chromogenic prints with film, using large format cameras Andreas scans the images and there digitally retouched and manipulated on a computer.

Andreas Gursky's photos stand out by the broad range of view he uses in his photos, he's able to make what could seem fairly boring to some, more entertaining, and interesting.

Linhof Cameras are one of the cameras Andreas uses to take these photos with Fujifilm 100 ASA, more than one camera (usually two) are used side by side in order to create a specific view; different lenses are used in both of the cameras as well.

Andreas Gursky is regarded the most paid photographer, selling photographs for millions of dollars, one of his photos from 1999 named Rhine was sold for $3.1 million in 2018, another photo was sold for $4.1 million, these photos are usually sold in print form at auctions. Andreas Gursky is thought to be worth $30million. Throughout Andreas Gursky’s career there’s been controversies debating whether or not if his photos are real, compared to what they look like in reality, some could argue that he’s taking photos of things that don’t necessarily exist, as Andreas Gursky has mentioned similar topics, that being of no rules to photography.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andreas-Gursky

https://www.photographytalk.com/highest-paid-photographers

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/andreas-gursky-at-hayward-gallery-the-secrets-behind-his-largerthanlife-photographs-a3748401.html

https://www.andreasgursky.com/en/biography

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (1997)

This stands as my favorite photo from Andreas Gursky. I like the colors, blending in Orange, and Black together, which is one of my favorite color combinations. I like that you can see the faces of the individuals in this photo, but in order to see them much better you'd have to zoom in, in one way or the other. I like that this image lets the viewers look around the whole photo.