How does Andreas Gursky make his giant photo prints?
How does Andreas Gursky make his giant photo prints?
After he has digitized his negative and worked on them in Photoshop he uses a lab with Lightjet processors that can handle 120 inch paper---He was featured in a New Yorker article sometime in in January, 2001.
MOMA has a page for the current exhibit on the web at:
http://www.moma.org/gursky/
there's more to it than just scanning his 4x5's-- his images are digital composites of many 4x5 originals. on location, he shoots several images panorama-style, covering the entire location with different images. then he scans each one and laces them all together digitally to create a single seamless image that looks like it was taken with a 20x24" camera using an impossibly perspective-controlled ultra-wide angle lens. i don't know what the final filesizes are-- several 4x5's scanned at high res would pretty quickly get up into the several-gigabyte size, and would approach Photoshop's max filesize of 30,000 x 30,000 pixels. perhaps he's using Live Picture or some other program, or his scans are not as high-res as one would typically use from a 4x5 (i.e., 300MB+). ~chris jordan, seattle
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