>>3784597Gursky along with whole Düsseldorf School of Photography changed photography. Gursky accepted that photography is really poor at conveying the highly subjective emotions. Instead what photography since it's invention is good at "documenting" things. So he used the techniques which the landscape calendar photographers use. What new thing that Gursky did was not to document the so called untouched beauty of nature but instead he documented collective anthropocentric processes centred around the spectacle of late globalist capitalistic production seasoned in post-modern irony.
His work is about "the bigger picture." And in many ways Gursky is still a traditional landscape photographer. But he is giving the viewer much, much more conceptual content to think about.
