He took subjects resembling grand history painting, with a proper Victorian composition. (haberarts.com)
Presenting what he claims is the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, he attempts to challenge many of our Western assumptions about the origins and nature of democracy and political institutions. (totalpolitics.com)
Now one of the world's most successful photographers, Gursky's curiously detached worldview, often presented on a scale associated with grand history paintings, is well known. (apollo-magazine.com)