LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY

Andreas Gursky is a photographer known for his large format landscapes, he is influential to many landscape photographers today and is known for capturing the most expensive photograph in the world which is obviously something to be admired.
The images to the left were taken by Andreas Gursky and show some of Gursky's most famous Landscape works.
The first image by Gursky consists of quite dull colours and the sky is quite dark that gives the setting a dull feel, there is little life in the image without the chickens as the trees have no leaves

 there are no bright features or colours and the place looks quite humanly derelict and that makes the photograph interesting and makes us ask questions about the setting and place.
The second image has a brighter colour scheme due to the bright green colours which add a vibrant feel to the image but the most apparent feel of the image is created by the horizontal lines. The horizontal lines across the image are created by the different sections in the image, the sky, the grass, the water,

the grass in the foreground and the path.
In each of Gurksy's landscapes there is no human life and the image captures the nature of a place he quite often has a background and foreground making his images have layers, this makes the photographs narrate the place intricately and leaves us asking questions about the place and the history around it.