Response for Andreas Gursky Video
This is a pretty old video. He considers himself a landscape
photographer and his photographs are unlike any we saw in class. To answer the
questions that were posed in class. 1.) Gursky states he could not believe
people would go to the water to not view the water. I don’t believe new
document style is used to be scene as distant or detached. New document is
documenting things in a new way, whether it be posed or fabricated, or sought
out rather than captured. All photography in essence is distant and detached,
yes you capture moments in time and the photographer decides a lot of the
emotions they want shown, but everyone views and sees things differently. 2)
Again with the water, he states that people are disconnected from the water,
but he never says disconnected from each other. I think it is hard to
stereotype one whole classification “style” of photography into a simple answer
for this question. Everyone is photographing what he or she feels strongly
about, yes some of it is going to be about the mechanical world impeding on the
social human world. Gursky decides to
shot some of his imagery with direct correlation to the idea of mass
consumerism. Not all deadpan photographers chose to do this 3) Yes, Deadpan and
new document style allows the photographer to chose the “truth” they want
perceived. Look at Andreas Gursky’s work, he is layering multiple images on top
of each other from different times of day at the same vantage point and calling
it truth. What do we believe? Thomas Demand is a fabricated artist that I see
as a New Document photographer; he makes 1 to 1 scale models for this work of
historical events. What is truth and what is not? 4) Yet again, I do not feel
that the whole DeadPan style can be summed up as uniform and mass-produced!
Look at Hilla and Bernd Becher and Andreas Gursky. Both are considered
landscape DeadPan artists. Both show a strategic style of documenting the world
around them. Yet they do it in very different and intriguing ways. Hilla and Bernd
show repetition with similar subject matters to show that things are not
mass-produced; there is an anonymous sculptor behind everything around us. Gursky shows the way people live and what
people interact with a library is as unique as the living rooms of hundreds of
apartment owners. 5) I think our ability to document anything has made us do
just that. Social media is an online diary with pictures to show the world.
That is ok with me, but it all comes down to, are people showing truth or what
we want to be seen as truth. Gursky says multiple times in this video that “he
wanted the viewer to see”, now are we seeing what he wants us to see, or are we
seeing what is really there. I would so not.
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