Burtynsky - China
by Mark Kingwell, Marc Mayer, Ted Fishman
ISBN-10: 3865211305
ISBN-13: 9783865211309
$85.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Steidl
Published on
Jan 15, 2006
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
14.25x1.00x11.25 Inches
Weight
4.89 Pounds
About the Book
Edward Burtynsky's imagery explores the intricate link between industry and nature, combining the raw elements of mining, quarrying, shipping, oil production and recycling into eloquent, highly expressive visions that find beauty and humanity in the most unlikely places. These images are metaphors for the dilemma of our modern existence: we are drawn by desire--the desire to live well and in comfort--yet we all know that the world is suffering to meet those demands. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into uneasy contradiction and feeds the dialogue in Burtynsky's images between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. Burtynsky's latest body of work gives visual form to the industrial and urban transformation of China, a place where industrial forces are gathering on a scale that the world has never experienced before. If the earth's resources were up to now under siege through western colonialism and technological progress, then China is on the brink of a sweeping assault on the planet's ecosystem that is only just forming and is nowhere close to expressing its full impact.