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Andreas Gursky has always had a macro view of the world. He seems to have gone omnipotent!

“The work apparently originates from Gursky being struck by the pictorial quality of the back-of-seat display as it showed the wide expanse of water that he was flying 35,000ft above (with the Horn of Africa to the far left of the screen, a tip of Australia to the right).”

Although Gursky uses digital means to create his images, no one is preoccupied by it. Maybe that because his images are always so beautiful, and meaningful enough that people aren’t distracted by any tricks. ‘”Gursky used high-definition satellite photographs which he augmented from various picture sources on the Internet,”… “The satellite photos are restricted however to exposures of sharply contoured land masses. Consequently the transitional zones between land and water – as well as the oceans themselves – had to be generated completely by artificial means.”‘

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/april/andeas-gursky-ocean-i-vi
http://spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/258@@viewqex2