Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky born on the 15th January 1955 is a German visual artist known for his large format architecture and landscape color photographs. Gursky broke the world record for the most expensive photograph ever sold with Rhein ll. It like many of his photos was larger than average photos, His process involved shooting chromogenic prints with film, using a large-format 5 × 7-inch camera; he scanned the images and digitally edited them on a computer. Rhein II was 5 × 10 feet. The unique compositional strategies of his photos have resulted in images that walk the line between representation and abstraction. 

Rhein ll

I feel that he reason why this photo was sold for such a large sum was because of it's simplistic and abstract look. Another reason is because of the editing that he did to change this from the original which would of involved houses on the horizon. this means that it would be very hard to get a photo to look exactly the same. 

I took this photo in the style of Gursky by using horizontal lines to split up the photo. I edited it in photoshop using the warp tool in order to get the horizontal lines straighter. I also edited levels to increase the contrast and vibrance to increase the intensity of the background.