Andreas Gursky is acclaimed for monumental colour photographs that dissect the systems and spectacles of global capitalism—trading floors, warehouses, concert crowds and façades rendered with forensic clarity. Elevated viewpoints and digitally refined detail make images that are at once documentary and constructed.
His compositions pattern reality until it verges on abstraction, inviting viewers to scan and decode vast fields of information. Gursky helped redefine photography’s place in contemporary art, turning the image into an architecture of data and scale.