There is an intense amount of detail and complexity in many of the photographs, but also a dominant sense of order. The photographs are usually from a high vantage point and at some distance
Another Deadpan photographer I wanted to look at further is Andreas Gursky. Quite a lot was said about him in "The Photograph as Contemporary Art", but not much of his work was shown. To be honest I think it must be difficult to get any sense of the work from viewing at the scale which is available on the web, but irrespective you at least get an impression of what these works must be like at full scale.
Some of the photographs include humans and present collective human behaviour or activity. However, no individual is singled out and presented. And it's certainly not clear what, if any, comment Gursky is making about the people or the scene.
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