Andreas Gursky - Bangkok (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2012

GREAT PHOTOBOOK by Andreas Gursky from 2012 (!) - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

Andreas Gursky ("Montparnasse", Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 2, page 275) is one of the
MOST IMPORTANT, MOST SUCESSFUL AND MOST FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ARTISTS WORLDWIDE.

New, mint, unread, still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's foil.
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Andreas Gursky's new Bangkok series forms the basis of this book. Gursky's photos depict the dark, moving water of Thailand's Chao Phraya river, whose shimmering surface possesses the qualities of abstract painting. Indeed these photos are reminiscent of some of the most recognisable examples of Modernist Abstraction such as the work of Hans Arp, but they also echo the more hostile patterns of military camouflage. Seductively beautiful on the first glance, it is only in time that the rubbish of civilisation becomes recognisable floating on the surface of the river - the flotsam of a threatening reality moving upon colourful reflections.

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Andreas Gursky studied at "Folkwangschule Essen" (Otto Steinert) and at "Kunstakademie Düsseldorf" (Bernd and Hilla Becher) where he was part of the legendary first class by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the "Kunstakademie" in Düsseldorf (together with Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and Axel Hütte).

The Dusseldorf School of Photography refers to a group of photographers who studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in the mid 1970s under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Known for their rigorous devotion to the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), the Bechers’ photographs were clear, black and white pictures of industrial archetypes (pitheads, water towers, coal bunkers).
Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth modified the approach of their teachers by applying new technical possibilities and a personal and contemporary vision, while retaining the documentary method their tutors propounded.

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Steidl, Göttingen. 2012. First English edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 220 x 290 mm. 112 pages. Book design by Adeline Morlon. 12 large-format Bangkok plates, 12 specially prepared details on translucent paper. 40 illustrations. Photos: Andreas Gursky. Texts by Hans Irrek, Beat Wismer and John Yau. Text in English.

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Andreas Gursky is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view. His works reach some of the highest prices in the art market among living photographers. His photograph Rhein II was sold for 4.338.500 us dollar on 8th of november 2011.
Andreas Gursky is one of the most famous living photographers and artists worldwide.
His publications and artist books are strongly sought-after, for example "Montparnasse" (Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 2, page 275), but also many others.
Gursky shares a studio with Laurenz Berges, Thomas Ruff and Axel Hütte on the Hansaallee, in Düsseldorf. The building, a former electricity station, was transformed into an artists studio and living quarters, in 2001, by architects Herzog & de Meuron, of Tate Modern fame. In 2010–11, the architects worked again on the building, designing a gallery in the basement.

'Andreas Gursky was born in 1955 in Leipzig, East Germany. His family relocated to West Germany, moving to Essen and then Düsseldorf by the end of 1957. Although his parents ran a commercial photography studio, the young Gursky did not seriously consider following their career path. From 1978 to 1980 he attended the Folkwangschule, Essen. While in school, he worked as a taxi driver. After failing to find work as a photojournalist, Gursky entered the prestigious Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, in 1980 with the encouragement of Thomas Struth. After one year of foundation coursework, he studied photography with Bernd and Hilla Becher. After setting up a color darkroom with friends in 1981, he worked solely in color despite the Bechers’ preference for black and white. For his first exhibition, Gursky’s Pförtnerbilder series of 1981–85, depicting the pairs of front-desk security staff omnipresent in German office buildings, was presented at the Düsseldorf Airport in 1987. In the mid-1980s he explored juxtapositions of nature and industry in the Ruhr Valley and made sharply detailed photographs of groups of people engaged in leisure activities out in the landscape. Gursky received his diploma in 1987.
Gursky’s first solo gallery show was held at Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, in 1988. A solo museum exhibition followed the next year, at the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld. The booming international art market, including a growing taste for photography and interest in the Bechers’ circle, helped bring Gursky commercial success. In the 1990s he traveled internationally to such cities as Tokyo, Cairo, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Singapore, and Los Angeles, often planning out his shoots of buildings, factories, hotels, and office buildings in advance of his arrival. In 1991–93 he photographed Siemens manufacturing plants at the company’s invitation, juxtaposing technology, people, and their environment.
From about 1988 Gursky increased the size of his photographs, which he had printed by a commercial lab. In the 1990s he used the largest size of photographic paper on the market; by 2000 he was combining sheets to produce images larger than six by fifteen feet. It was at this time that Gursky also began to use digital technology for retouching and for altering his negatives. For some works, such as architectural subjects, he moved the camera between shots and then combined the negatives on the computer to make seamless, often panoramalike, images. In 2001 he finished Stockholder Meeting, which represented a new stage in his work, characterized by entirely digital fabrication. Over the past decade, the subjects of his large-scale, manipulated photographs have included landscapes, archaeological sites, and throngs of people congregated in a variety of disparate sites from raves to the stock exchange.
In 1994 an exhibition of Gursky’s work from 1984 to 1993 was presented at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg and the De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam. The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf presented a mid-career retrospective of his work in 1998. The Museum of Modern Art organized another retrospective in 2001. In 2007, two major traveling museum exhibitions of his work were organized by Kunstmuseum Basel and Haus der Kunst in Munich. His work has been seen in international exhibitions, including the Internationale Foto-Triennale in Esslingen (1989 and 1995), the Venice Biennale (1990 and 2004), and the Biennale of Sydney (1996 and 2000). Gursky has won several awards, among them the 1988 Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für junge Künstler, the 1998 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, and the 2001 Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography, New York.'
(Guggenheim Museum)