Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view. Before the 1990s, Gursky did not digitally manipulate his images. In the years since,...
PhotoBiography: Luigi Ghirri
Luigi Ghirri (1943 - 1992) was an Italian artist and photographer who gained a far-reaching reputation as a pioneer and master of contemporary photography, with particular reference to its relationship between fiction and reality. His realistic use of colour, the normality of his shots and subjects in comparison with formalistic...
PhotoBiography: Harold Ross
Utilizing the technique of light painting, the photographer Harold Ross (born 1956) captures preternatural landscapes and unearthly discarded objects. Creating a hyper-reality defined by intense colors and rich textures, his photographs approach their subjects in an unforeseen and often startling manner. Depicting scenes from a midnight woodland, Ross's series Night...