In addition to Becher, Gursky is influenced by the British landscape photographer John Davies, whose
detailed high vantage point photos have a noticeable impact on the ground - level photos Gursky is making.
The other notable influence came from the British landscape photographer John Davies, whose highly
detailed high vantage point images had a strong effect on the street level photographs.
Not exact matches
I can see only one way of escape from this state of uncertainty which threatens to paralyze all positive action: we must rise above the storm, the chaos of surface
detail, and from a
higher vantage -
point look for the outline of some great and significant phenomenon.
Often taken from a
high vantage point, these images make use of a «democratic» perspective that dispenses with formal hierarchies and gives equal importance to all elements of his highly
detailed scenes.