Andreas Gursky

I first came across Gursky's work in The British Journal of Photography and wanted to research into his work further. The manipulation of colour and form helps to create the perfect composition and this is what i love about Gursky's images. They remind me of the ski photographs i took in Bulgaria.

Andreas Gursky's photographic vision is extraordinarily precise. Teasing an eccentric geometry out of each of his subjects, Gursky reorders the world according to his own visual logic, accumulating myriad details to offer a sense of harmonic coherence. The artist's subject matter is late capitalist society and the systems of exchange which organize it. His pictures may be described as modern-day versions of classical history painting in that they reproduce the collective mythologies that fuel contemporary culture: travel and leisure (sporting events, clubs, airports, hotel interiors, art galleries), finance (stock exchanges, sites of commerce), material production (factories, production lines), and information (libraries, book pages, data). Yet despite the traditions he invokes both formally and conceptually, Gursky has no pretense to objectivity. He digitally manipulates his images—combining discrete views of the same subject, deleting extraneous details, enhancing colors—to create a kind of "assisted realism" as in Library (1999). For example the traders in Gursky's rendering of the Singapore stock exchange wear only red, yellow, or blue jackets.
(http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/moving_pictures/highlights_7b.html)