Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky is one of my favorite visual artists known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs.
A few days ago a photo of the grey Rhine under grey skies has sold for $4.3m at a Christie's auction in New York, setting a new world record for a photograph.
Rhine II
Gursky explained in an interview that it is his favourite picture: "It says a lot using the most minimal means … for me it is an allegorical picture about the meaning of life and how things are."
There's an interesting documentary about him called 'Long Shot Close Up' by Jan Schmidt-Garre. You'll see and probably appreciate more how much work goes into a picture by Gursky. Here is a loose translation of their conversation:
Have also a look at Ben Lewis's "Gursky World," from 2002. The video quality is poor, but don't let that dissuade you:
