Shanghai (photograph)

The photograph has variable large dimensions, with the one held at the Art Institute of Chicago having 306 by 206 cm, and has a six prints edition.

The current photograph was created after he took three pictures in the monumental atrium of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Shanghai, China.

The picture tends to abstraction and is impressive in his visual scale of a towering space and the vivid yellow color, in which the floor almost comes out of the viewers angle.

[1][2] Sotheby's, London website states that "Neighbours for the duration of their stay, the lives of the hundreds of guests in the hotel are unlikely to cross paths again.

In Gursky's vision, a familiar scene of a hotel is rendered strangely foreign, forcing a critical reappraisal of the spatial organisation of our everyday lives.