Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky is a German artist born on 15 January 1955, best known for his photography, and a former professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. He is known for his large-scale colour photographs of architecture, landscapes and contemporary life, including crowds, consumer goods and the infrastructures of global capitalism, combining methodical observation with digital construction to achieve an all-over, hyper-detailed image field. His photograph Rhein II was sold at Christie's for $4,338,500 on 8 November 2011, at the time the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. He was also involved in the establishment of the Deutsches Fotoinstitut in Dusseldorf, the first national institution for photography in Germany.