Martin Gayford

The bigger picture | 1 February 2018

His colossal, panoramic pictures are brilliant and lowering at the same time

issue 03 February 2018

Walking around the Andreas Gursky exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, I struggled to recall what these huge photographs reminded me of. Gursky has built a career on colossal, panoramic pictures of subjects that are extremely ordinary — the view from a departure lounge of the empty runway at Schiphol airport, for example.

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