The photo that really caught my eye at the art museum was called “Madonna I”. This picture was one of the biggest in the exhibit. The official dimensions of this photo are 281.8 by 207 cm, or about 9 feet. The artist, Andreas Gursky, is known for his outsize, minutely detailed photographs. Originally, Gursky gave the photo to Madonna with an inscribed message on the back. But, according to the sale's catalogue, she parted with the piece in 2005, either cashing it in or giving it away, leading some to surmise the photo has been consigned by her ex-husband, Guy Ritchie. Other editions of the work reside in the permanent collections of the Pompidou Center and Düsseldorf's Kunst Palast. The photo itself is an aerial shot of Madonna playing to a packed Los Angeles audience on Sept.13, 2001. The original concert was scheduled to be on September 11th, but in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, it was rescheduled. Madonna is wearing an American flag around her waist. The photo uses Cibachrome printing. Cibachrome prints have been used in museums for displaying images and everywhere else that high quality archival prints are needed. They are considered one of the most stable fade-resistant and affordable color prints available. In fact, they are made on the most fade resistant material currently available. Unlike normal color prints that have the pigment on the surface of the paper, the color pigment in these prints are built into the paper. The dyes are called AZO dyes and they are known for their exceptional stability and color purity.
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The photo is of Madonna performing for a packed house in 2011. The photo has such an intense feeling. (Maybe because it’s 9 feet tall) I think the photo reveals a lot about Madonna. She’s obviously very popular judging by the large amount of people at the concert. I think it also reveals Madonna’s love for her country. She still decided to perform 2 days after the attacks on the Twin Towers. She also wears an American flag around her waist to show her support. The crowd is very overwhelming when you look at the photo. Most of the people in the picture can’t even see Madonna on the stage. She is also showing a lot of passion in the picture. She’s jumping up and down and appears to be belting out lyrics. From this picture, Madonna looks very passionate about her music.
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Andreas Gursky is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape, often employing a high point of view. He was born in Leipig; in 1955, but he grew up in Dusseldorf, the son of a commercial photographer. In the early 1980s, at Germany's State Art Academy, the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Gursky received strong training and influence from his teachers, Hilla and Bernd Becher,a photographic team known for their distinctive, dispassionate method of systematically cataloging industrial machinery and architecture. A similar approach may be found in Gursky's methodical approach to his own, larger-scale photography. Before the 1990s, Gursky did not digitally manipulate his images. In the years since, Gursky has been frank about his reliance on computers to edit and enhance his pictures, creating an art of spaces larger than the subjects photographed. Visually, Gursky is drawn to large, anonymous, man-made spaces—high-rise facades at night, office lobbies, stock exchanges, the interiors of big box retailers. As of early 2007, Gursky holds the record for highest price paid at auction for a single photographic image.
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