CHINA - Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky's photographic imagery explores the complex relationship between industry and nature, combining the raw elements of mining, quarrying, shipping, oil production and recycling in 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 chance to live well, to have all the creature comforts - but we all know that the world suffers to meet these demands. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet places us in an uneasy contradiction, and fuels the dialogue in Burtynsky's images between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear.
Burtysnky's photographs give visual form to China's industrial and urban transformation, a place where industrial forces are coming together on a scale the world has never known before. If the earth's resources were under siege from Western colonialism and technological progress, then China is on the brink of a tsunami that is only just forming and is far from expressing its full impact.
Published by Steidl, 2005
38 cm x 35 cm, 148 pages, good condition
ISBN 9783865212528
Edward Burtynsky's photographic imagery explores the complex relationship between industry and nature, combining the raw elements of mining, quarrying, shipping, oil production and recycling in 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 chance to live well, to have all the creature comforts - but we all know that the world suffers to meet these demands. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet places us in an uneasy contradiction, and fuels the dialogue in Burtynsky's images between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear.
Burtysnky's photographs give visual form to China's industrial and urban transformation, a place where industrial forces are coming together on a scale the world has never known before. If the earth's resources were under siege from Western colonialism and technological progress, then China is on the brink of a tsunami that is only just forming and is far from expressing its full impact.
Published by Steidl, 2005
38 cm x 35 cm, 148 pages, good condition
ISBN 9783865212528
Edward Burtynsky's photographic imagery explores the complex relationship between industry and nature, combining the raw elements of mining, quarrying, shipping, oil production and recycling in 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 chance to live well, to have all the creature comforts - but we all know that the world suffers to meet these demands. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet places us in an uneasy contradiction, and fuels the dialogue in Burtynsky's images between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear.
Burtysnky's photographs give visual form to China's industrial and urban transformation, a place where industrial forces are coming together on a scale the world has never known before. If the earth's resources were under siege from Western colonialism and technological progress, then China is on the brink of a tsunami that is only just forming and is far from expressing its full impact.
Published by Steidl, 2005
38 cm x 35 cm, 148 pages, good condition
ISBN 9783865212528
