Andreas Gursky @ Hayward Gallery, Photography, A level Photography

1. Mise en Scene Process
What has the artist used to make the art work? Consider the materials
and media. What size is the image? Does this change the viewer’s
interaction with the image?
Keywords
Image Analysis: Writing Frame
TITLE: 99 Cent Diptych
DATE: 1999
ARTIST: Andreas Gursky
Intentions:
Wider Issues

2. What are Gursky’s intentions? There may be more than one. ‘PEC’ each intention.
P Gursky creates (what type of images? Fantastical, surreal, objective)
E He does this by... (describe something in the image)
C He wanted us to consider ....
What wider issues is the Gursky addressing?
P Gursky is considering (a bigger issue in photography, society, politics?)
E This is shown by ... (describe something in the image)
C Gursky was interested in this issue because …
How do the materials and techniques used support your photographer’s intentions?
P Gursky has used (the darkroom / multiple exposure / film / digital manipulation techniques) in creating this work.
E Describe something in the image.
C This helps to support Gursky’s point about …

3. The Bechers, over nearly 50 years, documented the water towers, coal bunkers,
and other industrial architecture of Germany’s Ruhr Valley, shot in black-and-white
with rigorously objectivity and displayed in systematic sequences. Sentiment and
expressiveness were out of the question, and humans were nowhere to be found.

4. Gursky’s Peers @ Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Thomas Struth Thomas Ruff Candida Höfer