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Vision is an intelligent form of thought

Andreas Gursky

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Andreas Gursky
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Artist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Teacher
University Teacher
Intelligent
Vision
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Thought

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I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.
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I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
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I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
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Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
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Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.
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I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.
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