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5 unusual facts about Andreas Gursky


99 Cent II Diptychon

The artwork 99 Cent II Diptychon from 2001 is a two-part photograph made by Andreas Gursky probably in 1999, as the work is sometimes called "99 cent.1999".

99 Cents Only Stores

Photographer Andreas Gursky's diptych of the inside of the Hollywood, California 99 Cents Only store became the most expensive photograph ever sold in February 2007, auctioned for $3.3 million.

Colección Júmex

The La Colección Júmex is said to be the largest private contemporary art collection in Latin America, with works by Jeff Koons, Andreas Gursky and Gabriel Orozco.

Joel Sternfeld

He has influenced a generation of color photographers, including Andreas Gursky, who borrows many of Sternfeld's techniques and approaches.

Michael Fried

In a reading of works by prominent art photographers of the last 20 years (Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Demand among others) Fried asserts that concerns of anti-theatricality and absorption are central to the turn by recent photographers towards large-scale works "for the wall.".


Dániel Halász

Both of these awards had an expert jury with members like Martin Parr, Idris Khan and Andreas Gursky.

Svea Josephy

Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Candida Hoffer and Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephen Shore, Robert Adams, Paul Graham, Martin Parr and Ed Burtynsky.

The Photographers' Gallery

The Photographers Gallery was the first public gallery in London to exhibit key names in international photography, such as Juergen Teller (fashion), Robert Capa (photojournalism), Sebastiao Salgado (documentary), and Andreas Gursky(contemporary art).


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Fondation Carmignac

Photography also forms an important part of the collection, with work by Andreas Gursky, Peter Lindbergh, Martin Parr, Doug Aitken, Chen Wei, Alex Prager, Nicola Costantino, Anne Deniau and Edgar Martins.

Peter Doroshenko

In the last fifteen years, Doroshenko has organized exhibitions including: Michaël Borremans, Candice Breitz, Maurizio Cattelan, Sam Durant, Meschac Gaba, Kendell Geers, Andreas Gursky, Luisa Lambri, John McCracken, Mariko Mori, João Penalva, Bojan Sarcevic, Kim Sooja, Pascal Marthine-Tayou, Juergen Teller, Barthélémy Toguo, Salla Tykka and Sam Taylor-Wood.