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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 5 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | 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. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Edward Burtynsky | | Hardcover: | 180 pages | | Publisher: | Steidl | | Publication Date: | October 15, 2005 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 3865211305 | | Product Length: | 11.64 inches | | Product Width: | 14.72 inches | | Product Height: | 0.93 inches | | Product Weight: | 4.87 pounds | | Package Length: | 14.57 inches | | Package Width: | 11.57 inches | | Package Height: | 1.02 inches | | Package Weight: | 4.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 A significant and breathtaking record Jun 13, 2007
By Stephen Best
As a record of this time in the world's history ... the dismantling of local industry around the world in tacit acquiescence of China's future dominance ... I can't think of a more significant body of work in the medium. The images herein are truly breathtaking for their scale. Burtynsky has a privileged view and uses crisp large-format photography to lend authority to his vision. The monumental is not without a humanizing touch as can be seen best in his beautiful ship-building images. This is a wonderful book with images that one can marvel at for their execution whilst viewing with trepidation for their portent. The printing and presentation complements the images.
This + "Manufactured Landscapes" = the DVD Jan 01, 2009
By LF Shooter
"Ted"
If you like crystal clear, razor-sharp images full of rich detail that only large format photography provides, you'll like this book. You'll like it even more if you appreciate the subject matter -- urban, industrial subjects that you wouldn't expect to be "picturesque"... But with Burtynsky's eye and the magic of LF, you'll find an interesting combination of artistry, the "omigosh" effect, and a ponderous implicit social comment all wrapped up into one. These are not snapshots; they're carefully planned & executed at great cost and trouble -- that's LF. But the results are impressive and the images are not easily forgotten.
I was introduced to this photographer by fellow large format shooter, Tom Paiva, who is understandably inspired by Burtynsky; Tom shoots industrial subjects at night. I have this book and "Manufactured Landscapes", both of which contributed the still images to the *most excellent* DVD, "Manufactured Landscapes". If you like the book, get the DVD!
3 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Interesting landscape Mar 26, 2007
By lucille
"lucy"
Large format, interesting photographs of China. I was worried his work might not translate in a book, but if you like his work, not to worry about that.
3 of 11 found the following review helpful:
large format photography Jan 09, 2007
By Lewenberg Sturm
"freenaute"
Nice and wonderful.
If you like large format details
this is to see
BUT I'm very angry because the package by amazon wasn't efficently prepared to the reality of post office.
2 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Over all it's a nice book of a good photographer Jan 09, 2007
By E. Yaary
I realy like Edward Burtysky as a photographer and this book shows sokme really nice photo's. But for some reason some of his photo's took me by surprise as I saw them in a completely different lightfrom other photos of which he took. it's a bit hard to explain but it almost seems like two different photographers were sharing this wonderful, 147 pages, Hardcover book.
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