Photography of Andreas Gursky

I’m interested in what has been been described as an ‘Olympian perspective’ in the photography of Andreas Gursky.I have definetely been drawn to similar imagery in my own work and has lead to the use of satellite imagery as an utimate‘Olympian perspective’.........

‘The distant prospect from an elevated position belongs to a very old class of imagery, born of an accommodation between the map-like schemas of primitive pictures and the unique , fixed vantage point of Renaissance perspective. It makes the viewer a God-like prescence, everywhere and nowhere at once, granting us a sense of overarching possession while excluding us from direct participation in the toy like realm….’


(Peter Galassi , Gursky’s World, Andreas Gursky, MOMA , New York ,2001 ,P 25)