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Burtynsky - China | 
 enlarge | Authors: Edward Burtynsky, Ted Fishman
Creators: Mark Kingwell, Marc Mayer
Publisher: Steidl
Category: Book
List Price: $85.00
Buy New: $53.55
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 171933
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 14.7 x 11.6 x 1
ISBN: 3865211305
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865211309
ASIN: 3865211305
Publication Date: October 15, 2005
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Product Description
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. Burtysnky'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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 Beautiful book disfigured by Amazon's packaging December 25, 2007
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
A beautiful book disfigured by Amazon's packaging. The tight plastic shrink-wrap bent the corners of the book, greatly reducing its value as a part of my collection. This isn't the first time that a photo-book from Amazon has arrived already marred. It's a shame.
 A significant and breathtaking record June 13, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
Interesting landscape March 26, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
Over all it's a nice book of a good photographer January 9, 2007
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
large format photography January 9, 2007
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
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