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One of the most famous of the contemporary art photographers is Andreas Gursky. Gursky was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1955. He makes large-scale colour photographs distinctive for their incisive and critical look at the effect of capitalism and globalisation on contemporary life. Gursky studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher (see previous blog post) at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie in the early 1980s and first adopted a style and method closely following the Bechers’ systematic approach to…

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