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AAnnddrreeaass GGuurrsskkyy PPeetteerr GGaallaassssii Author Galassi, Peter Date 2001 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art; H.N. Abrams ISBN 0870700162, 0810962152, 0870700170 Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/170 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art "' " WMm® ANDREAS GURSKY Andreas Gursky's large color photographs vividly encapsulate our world of high-tech industry, global markets, easy travel, and slick commerce. Gursky has tracked the contemporary Zeitgeist from his native Germany to such far-flung places as Hong Kong, Brasilia, Cairo, New York, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, and Los Angeles. His subjects include international stock exchanges, vast hotels and apartment buildings, sporting championships and parliaments, and mid night raves attended by casts of thousands. Born in 1955, Gursky came to prominence in the late 1980s after studying with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf. In the 1990s, as he turned to contemporary themes and his photographs grew in scale, he rapidly achieved a signature style of saturated color, com manding symmetry, and bold design, in which every tiny detail responds to the compelling order of the whole. At the same time, his highly inventive work has drawn nourishment from an improbable diversity of imagery and techniques, from the seductions of commercial photography and the tricks of dig ital manipulation to the steady eye of documentary photogra phy and the grandeur of painting by artists from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter. This large-format book is published to accompany the first American retrospective of Gursky's work, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the spring of 2001. Its full-page plates and generous details survey the artist's career from 1984-t o the present. Peter Galassi's richly illustrated essay provides the first in-depth study of the artistic contexts, work ing methods, and evolution of Gursky's photography. The book concludes with a detailed Exhibition Chronology and Bibliography. 196 pages; 133 illustrations (115 color, 18 duotone) l.-Mi.,....,....— .am ;.,. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART LIBRARY > L m.TM | ly Peter Galassi The Museum of Modern Art, New York Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York "SB! WW llUiiiMI'l i. tttoUftran.- A,ycF;jc MoMA Published in conjunction with the exhibition Andreas Gursky, organized by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of the Department of Andre Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, our w March 4-May 15, 2001. and zeitge The exhibition is made possible by the Hong William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund. Tokyo interr This publication is made possible by the build John Szarkowski Publications Fund. night Produced by the Department of Publications, Born The Museum of Modern Art, New York after Kunsl Edited by David Frankel conte Designed by Deborah Littlejohn and Santiago Piedrafita he ra Cover designed by Gina Rossi mane Production by Christopher Zichello respo Printed by Passavia Druckservice GmbH, Passau, Germany time, Bound by Stamperia Valdonega S.R.L., Verona, Italy an im Color Separations by Barry Siddall, MR Reproduktionen, Munich seduc ital m This book is typeset in DIN Schriften, designed by Erick Spikerman, phy a and in Eurostile, designed by Aldo Novarese. The paper is 170 gsm f David Luxosilk This I Copyright © 2001 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Amer Mode Photographs by Andreas Gursky © 2001 Andreas Gursky plates 1984 Certain illustrations are covered by claims to copyright cited in the provid Photograph Credits, p. 195. All rights reserved ing m concli Published by The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, Biblio New York, New York 10019 196 p; Clothbound edition distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York Clothbound edition distributed outside the United States and Canada by Thames & Hudson, Ltd, London Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 00-110690 ISBN: 0-87070-016-2 (clothbound, MoMA/Thames & Hudson) ISBN: 0-8109-6215-2 (clothbound, Abrams) ISBN: 0-87070-017-0 (paperbound, MoMA) Cover: Andreas Gursky. May Day IV (detail). 2000. See plate 59 Frontispiece: Paris, Montparnasse (detail). 1993. See plate 28 Printed in Germany -fU,: gHRj CONTENTS FOREWORD PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GURSKY'S WORLD Peter Galassi PLATES LIST OF PLATES EXHIBITION CHRONOLOGY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
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