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Chicago, Board of Trade II was produced in an edition of six. Tate owns one of two artist’s proofs of the image. This large colour photograph depicts the trading floor of the Board of Trade in Chicago. Seen from above, the floor is a dense hive of activity. Brokers in brightly coloured jackets stand in groups around banks of monitors. Their flurried actions give the image a blurred quality; Gursky double exposed several sections of the image to enhance this sense of movement. Around the edges of the pit rise banks of desks, behind which are seated rows of figures hunched over telephones, staring at screens or gesticulating to their colleagues. Gursky’s process often involves taking several pictures of a subject and scanning the resultant images into a computer where he can merge and manipulate them.
Title
Chicago, Board of Trade II
Date
1999
Medium
photograph, colour, chromogenic print, on paper
Measurements
H 157.4 x W 284 cm
Accession number
P20191
Acquisition method
Presented by the artist 2000
Work type
Photograph
