On Familiarity - Blake Andrews (Fri 31 Oct 2014)

Tracks (*) - South Kensington (Sun 14 Sep 2014)
Blake Andrews (*) writes Familiarity (*) through an Andreas Gursky (*) (who has had an implicit influence (*) on my own photography):

[..songs] I've heard a thousand times. I know the song so well that when it comes on my brain shifts it to the background. I don't listen carefully because I think I know it. But do I?

via 99 Cent (*) by Blake Andrews (*).

Tracks - Av de la Grande Amdee / Paris (Tue 24 Aug 2005)

Tracks - Av de la Grande Amdee / Paris (Tue 24 Aug 2005)
This style of photo was inspired by Andreas Gursky's (*) Rhine II (*) - see below - which I had been impressed by in my early photography days. I have a few variations of this and will put them here when I have time to find them.

Rhine II (*) recently sold (*) for a record $4.2 million.

Robert McFarlane (*) recently described (*) Rhine II (*) ..

"It's very simple, very graphic. In a funny way it makes you contemplate the very ordinary moments in your life,"

A nice way to look at my own humble efforts.

Rhine II (*) - Andreas Gursky's (*) - Rhine River / Cologne / Germany (1999)
Some interesting discussion and videos from here (*).