Düsseldorf School of Photography

Laurenz Berges’ Cloppenburg & an air of misery and grief

The photographer Laurenz Berges originated from Cloppenburg in Germany. He received his training at the Folkwangschule in Essen. His work has always been shrouded by cultural undertones and connotations deeply rooted in the Second World War and its impact on society. Like many other German artists of his day, Berges has created a reputation for […]

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Thomas Ruff’s portraits & his unique signature style

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Thomas Ruff is a well-known photographer from Düsseldorf, Germany. He was born in 1958 and had a passion and interest in photography from childhood. Soon after Ruff got a camera, he attended a class to learn fundamental photography skills. He was able to understand the basics and become a professional photographer within a short period.

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The magic in Thomas Ruff’s Star photos

Photography / 4 minutes of reading

Thomas Ruff was obsessed with stars from an early age. Stars light up the dark sky and have been an object of human curiosity since the beginning of time. There is no denying their beauty, but one can simply not capture all this permanently and adequately. Thomas Ruff took this as a challenge and came

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Candida Höfer helps you discovering the world’s most stunning libraries

Architecture, Photography / 5 minutes of reading

Nobody ever thinks of standing in the library aisles to take photographs, apart from Candida Höfer of course. She not only does a great job of bringing out the beautiful aspects of the spaces between books she takes but also captures the intensity of the reading mood. With no effort to stage any of the

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Andreas Gursky’s Stock Exchanges – Humans reduced to a blob of color

Architecture, Photography / 2 minutes of reading

Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and professor. He is most well known for large format architecture and landscape color photos, and following the 1990s, Gursky has been using technology and computers to edit and enhance his photos. First Stock Exchange photo in 1990 Gursky is known for using an elevated vantage point as his

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Thomas Struth & a new visual language in photography

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Thomas Struth is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary photographers of our time. He is renowned for his black and white photographs of cities such as Düsseldorf and New York, as well as his family portraits. Why are the Museum Photographs important? The artist who lives in Dusseldorf acquired his inspiration for his Museum

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When Thomas Struth visited Disneyland…

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

The collection of Thomas Struth: full of dynamic creativity, unseeingly authenticity. You’d definitely know it is inspired by a life beyond what our eyes can see. He made art from an angle where our minds depict an unimaginative reality correlated through the art of modern technology. The conceptualization was well thought out so that fantasies

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Andreas Gursky’s sensational photos of North Korea’s mass games

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

Renowned for his large-format color photographs charting themes of globalized society at work and play, Andreas Gursky’s production employs the digital technology to capture and refine an astounding compilation of detail on an epic scale. The perspective in many of Gursky’s photographs is drawn from an elevated vantage point. This position enables the viewer to

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Photographer Thomas Struth visits both North & South Korea

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

In March 2007, Thomas Struth went on a first trip to South Korea. He spent time in the two largest cities, Seoul and Busan, and visited religious and cultural sites, important landscapes and shipyards. At the vast DSME shipyard on Geoje Island, one of the largest in the world, he photographed tankers under construction and

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Thomas Struth’s jungle photos may make you feel helpless

Photography / 4 minutes of reading

German photographer Thomas Struth has been taking pictures of forests in different parts of the world since 1998. By giving these images the title New Pictures from Paradise, he has endowed them with a special meaning as pictures of nature before the intrusion of humans. His attention focuses on wild nature while at the same

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Andreas Gursky from 1990 to present – His best photos

Architecture, Photography / 11 minutes of reading

Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, Germany, is a renowned photographer who uses colorful, large-scale depictions of modern life. Living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany, he represents a revaluation of realism within contemporary photography through conceptual staging and digital image editing. The German photographer popularised photography focusing on day-to-day human activities in commerce, sports

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