Publisher/MoMA

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A photo book by Andreas Gursky, one of Germany's leading contemporary photographers. Gursky studied under the photography master Bernd Becher at the prestigious Düsseldorf Art Academy in Germany, and is one of the "Becher School" that was taught by the Becher couple along with Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, and Axel Hütte. His large-scale works, which seem to symbolize the modern era of accelerating globalization and digitalization, have the appearance of abstract paintings, and he is highly regarded worldwide as one of the people who pushed photography into the realm of conceptual art. One of his representative works, "Rhein II," released in 1999, was also a hot topic when it was sold for $4.3 million, the highest price in the history of photography. This book is a large-format collection of Gursky's works, published on the occasion of a major retrospective held at MoMA in New York in 2001, and contains many of his previous works. The first edition was published in 2001, and this is the fourth printing published in 2009.