ISBN: 9783936859621 - andreas gursky (5 résultats)

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; 158 pages, in English as new condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. 158 pages. Features text in English and German with an essay by Thomas Weski and also includes Don Delillo's "In Yankee Stadium." Includes 65 color images. A very fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.…

Hardcover. Etat : As New. GURSKY, ANDREAS Andreas Gursky. [Exhibition catalogue]. Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, May 30 - August 26, 2007; Sharjah Art Museum UAE, November 29, 2007 - January 27, 2008. Edited by Thomas Weski Snoeck. Text by Thomas Weski, Don DeLillo. Cologne: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007. 4to., 158 p., color ills. Original binding. As new ISBN: 9783936859621 CATALOG: Painting & Sculpture KEYWORDS: History of art Painting photography Contemprary Art Gursky's photos exploit the visual codes of a globalized world. They combine collective memories into rhythmic images that appear familiar and intelligible to viewers because the situations have been stored in their subconscious. But the photographer's slightly elevated vantage point gives these situations an unfamiliar feeling. Viewers float above the objects, observing from an idealized perspective they are usually denied. Patterns and repetition become obvious, details once overlooked become prominent, and situations usually considered banal take on the air of a medieval miniature, an Old Master, or an abstract painting. Since the early 1990s, Gursky has photographed his motifs using both analog and digital methods, and then composed his final image using digital technology. Gursky's works, therefore, are not classical documentary photographs, but are hyper-realistic fictions based on facts. Reality can only be portrayed when one constructs it, says the photographer. With their paradoxical character and idealized composition, Gursky's works simultaneously express reality and observe it. Includes a critical essay by curator Thomas Weski and a contribution titled In Yankee Stadium by American novelist Don DeLillo.…

Hardcover. Etat : New.