Andreas Gursky

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Andreas Gursky (1955 - ) is a German photographer known for the highly textured feel of his enormous photographs often using a high point of view.

Gursky received a strong influence from his teachers, Hilla and Bernd Becher, who are known for their distinctive method of systematically cataloging industrial machinery. This method is similarly found in Gursky's methodical approach to his photography.

Before the mid 1990s, Gursky did not digitally manipulate his images. Today, however Gursky uses computers to edit his pictures and creates art in a larger space than the subject photographed. Gursky holds the record for the highest price paid for a photograph by a living photographer for his work 99 Cent II Diptychon which sold for USD 3.3 million in 2007.

Gursky's photograph of the Dance Valley festival in Amsterdam in 1995, depicts revellers facing a DJ stand in a large arena, with strobe lighting effects. The smoke pouring out looks like a hand holding the crowd in stasis. After producing that photo, Gursky has said that the only music he listens to is Techno music because its simple symmetry echos his own work while playing to a deeper more visceral emotion.^{[citation needed]}

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List of most expensive photographs

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1989 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld; Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Genf, Switzerland
1992 Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
1994 Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
1995 Portikus Frankfurt; Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; Tate Gallery Liverpool, England
1998 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Houston, USA
1999 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2000 Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Busch-Reisinger Museum, Havard University, Cambridge, USA
2001 Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France;
2003 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2005 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain
2007 Haus der Kunst München, Germany
2007 White Cube, London, England