Andreas Gursky review – a world in dizzying high definition

Hayward Gallery, London
The German photographer’s vast, high-detail images play wonderfully with reality and artifice – though at the expense of human individuality
• Read Rowan Moore’s review of the new-look Hayward GalleryToo good to be true: that is the art of the German photographer Andreas Gursky. His monumental pictures of our world – magnificently orchestrated, gorgeous in their super-saturated colours – are so improbably detailed you can view the sea fr