ANDREAS GURSKY
Andreas Gursky (born 1955) is a contemporary artist who uses photography as his medium.
He has had a profound influence on the development of photography as a fine art as he has allowed the traditional, literal and narrative causes of picture making to fall away in favour of a crisp, abstract and often mesmerizing product.
He has said of his work: "A formal and abstract visual structure appears to dominate the real events shown in my pictures. I subjugate the real situation to my artistic concept of the picture."
He lives and works in Germany.