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11/14/2014 09:23:34 AM · #1 |
Make a photo in the style of contemporary photographer, Andreas Gursky. Advanced Editing ruleset.
A main collection of Gursky.
Message edited by author 2014-11-14 09:32:08. |
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11/14/2014 09:36:28 AM · #2 |
yes
i like the eazy stuff
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11/14/2014 10:13:33 AM · #3 |
Sounds good.
Would something like this work?
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11/14/2014 12:16:15 PM · #4 |
wow, I like his pictures
Would be great as challenge
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11/14/2014 02:02:29 PM · #5 |
| I think that would work pretty well. |
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11/14/2014 02:34:36 PM · #6 |
| That's a fine idea, Richard. How would you "define" his style? Just curious... |
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11/14/2014 02:45:57 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
That's a fine idea, Richard. How would you "define" his style? Just curiousâ€Â¦ |
Clarity, high resolution detail, elevated vantage point, straightforward detail.
In a 2001 retrospective, New York's Museum of Modern Art described the artist's work, "a sophisticated art of unembellished observation."â€Â¦ |
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11/14/2014 03:36:02 PM · #8 |
| This would have never worked at 800px. |
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11/14/2014 05:02:25 PM · #9 |
| and leaning towards geometric and abstract owing to the scale |
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11/17/2014 01:02:41 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
That's a fine idea, Richard. How would you "define" his style? Just curiousâ€Â¦ |
Clarity, high resolution detail, elevated vantage point, straightforward detail.
In a 2001 retrospective, New York's Museum of Modern Art described the artist's work, "a sophisticated art of unembellished observation."â€Â¦ |
His own website defines his work as thus: Quote "Andreas Gursky makes large-scale, colour photographs distinctive for their incisive and critical look at the effect of capitalism and globalisation on contemporary life." Unquote
//whitecube.com/artists/andreas_gursky/
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11/17/2014 10:09:42 AM · #11 |
| Hmm definitely interesting...time to put Siggy and a tall ladder to work! |
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11/17/2014 11:01:45 AM · #12 |
| I like his stuff. For me, there is no focal point in his images. You continually scan, never landing. |
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11/17/2014 11:23:35 AM · #13 |
This link was interesting to me as it showed a broader subject range - not just industrial and urban but rural, too. I never could get a slide show going but by clicking repeatedly on the largest image (not the thumbs), I was able to advance through them. |
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11/17/2014 09:58:10 PM · #14 |
Am I the only one who thinks this image is incredibly boring (and many others are quite ordinary, as well)?
I so wish I knew how to take such dull shot, then convince someone to praise it in glorious terms.
I realize it is a three meter wide print, but that just means three meters of yaaaaawwwwnnnnnn!!!
£2.7 million for this..... I find that quite upsetting. |
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11/17/2014 10:20:43 PM · #15 |
| Not that one as much as the one immediately above it. What the heck is the point of that image? It doesn't even look like his work... |
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11/17/2014 11:06:06 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Beetle:
... yaaaaawwwwnnnnnn!!! |
+1!
I think some of the people buying photo prints are getting carried away. JMO. |
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11/17/2014 11:44:22 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Beetle:
Am I the only one who thinks this image is incredibly boring (and many others are quite ordinary, as well)?
I so wish I knew how to take such dull shot, then convince someone to praise it in glorious terms.
I realize it is a three meter wide print, but that just means three meters of yaaaaawwwwnnnnnn!!!
£2.7 million for this..... I find that quite upsetting. |
The dogwalkers and a factory has been digitally removed from his original shot. |
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11/18/2014 05:20:09 AM · #18 |
While taking a momentary break from the serious work of creating my Diptych Selfie challenge entry, I found this article helpful in understanding Andreas Gursky's work.
My suggestion for In the style of Andreas Gursky was based on the relatively fresh possibilities of 1200 pixels. We can't display as much exquisite detail as Gursky does, but we can come closer to emulating his photographic style.
"A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before."
Willem Dafoe
That's the point. Gursky photographs reality scenes in a manner which few have ever observed. It's unembellished observation of complex scenes in our interesting and real world. Admittedly, it's a far cry from Photoshopped collages of fantasies. I suppose that is what is generating the cries of boredom. Documenting reality of our wonderful world in a unique way has always appealed to me. I nearly died from Congestive Heart Failure and Stroke last June. Now that it appears I will live a little longer, my interest in observing and photographing the beauty, complexity and unpredictable chaos of the real world is highest on my bucket list.
Now, back to the important Selfie Duo work. Sorry for the interruption.
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11/18/2014 07:38:00 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
... the serious work of creating my Diptych Selfie challenge entry ... |
Yeah. No kidding! (bold emphasis above is mine) |
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11/21/2014 12:56:52 PM · #20 |
Event on Saturday is plan "A".
If not possible, then event on Sunday is plan "B". |
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11/21/2014 01:01:13 PM · #21 |
| Art is subjective I reckon, personally I find his work very uninspiring. |
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11/21/2014 01:03:36 PM · #22 |
| I imagine if I saw his work live, I'd have much the same reaction as I did the first time I saw a Jackson Pollok. I'd seen Pollok's in books, and was unfazed. Then I went to MoMA and saw one up close. I was mesmerized. |
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11/22/2014 05:37:04 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by Beetle:
Am I the only one who thinks this image is incredibly boring (and many others are quite ordinary, as well)?
I so wish I knew how to take such dull shot, then convince someone to praise it in glorious terms.
I realize it is a three meter wide print, but that just means three meters of yaaaaawwwwnnnnnn!!!
£2.7 million for this..... I find that quite upsetting. |
My thoughts exactly! Talk about being charmed, wonder if he took marketing tips from the people who marketed the "pet rock" lol! This guy does not inspire me at all. His work is too busy and yawn provoking "art". To each his own I guess. |
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11/22/2014 07:50:13 PM · #24 |
You might want to look also at other "digital experiences" as the French call it, at "hyperphotos" such as Jean Francois Rauzier's concoctions. Just google his name for a "feast of imagination". Surely, it's not Gursky. Gursky is as Jery Salz said in his article::
Unfortunately, as smart and deft as this artist (Gursky) still is, that fizz has gone flat, the power has run low, the former buzz has become a drone.
Why would we like to experience with our little 1200 pixels what Gursky shows in his mega prints is lost on me and I'm afraid that the love for a certain type of crispiness will again be detrimental to the exercise of photography here.
Some of you discussed in a recent forum the value of looking at photography in an album, a book versus printed large in an exhibition
flat and soulless etc
Gursky is best seen when printed, that's how he intended it I think. Overpowering. |
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11/22/2014 08:00:18 PM · #25 |
| I got a photo I think will work fairly well for the style. Not much fun shooting in the rain & wind, my umbrella kept getting turned inside out and water spots kept getting on the lens filter. |
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