Heidelberg Ost

"My pictures are becoming increasingly formal and abstract. A visual structure appears to dominate the real events shown in my pictures. I subjugate the real situation to my artistic concept of the picture... You never notice arbitrary details in my work. On a formal level, countless interrelated micro and macro-structures are woven together, determined by an overall organisational principle. A closed microcosm which, thanks to my distanced attitude toward my subject, allows the viewer to recognise the hinges that hold the system together." In: 'Andreas Gursky, Photographs from 1984 to the Present', Munich 1998, p. 14.)