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Quarries / Edward Burtynsky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Göttingen : Steidl, 2007Distributor: London : Thames & Hudson Description: 191 pages : illustrations ; 30 x 38 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3865214568
  • 9783865214560
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 779.092 22
Contents:
Essays by Michael Mitchell -- More Urgent Than Beauty -- Rock of Ages -- Three Marble Mountains -- Dying for Beauty -- Buy Low Sell Low -- Inverted Architecture -- Plates -- Rock of Ages -- Carrara -- Makrana -- Xiamen -- Iberia.
Review: "The new book Burtynsky - Quarries by celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky traces the artist's in-depth exploration of landscape as transformed by industry - in this case large-scale quarries around the world. These works were realized over seventeen years within a career that spans over a quarter century. Through masterful technique and often dizzying compositions, the artist presents his magnificent colour images as thought-provoking studies of those deconstructed territories that are created as we dig into the earth for material in order to build our cities. These detailed, sumptuous photographs urge us to consider how we as viewers are simultaneously attracted yet repulsed by these landscapes. Somewhere, while a building is created, a landscape is being destroyed."--BOOK JACKET.
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Essays by Michael Mitchell -- More Urgent Than Beauty -- Rock of Ages -- Three Marble Mountains -- Dying for Beauty -- Buy Low Sell Low -- Inverted Architecture -- Plates -- Rock of Ages -- Carrara -- Makrana -- Xiamen -- Iberia.

"The new book Burtynsky - Quarries by celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky traces the artist's in-depth exploration of landscape as transformed by industry - in this case large-scale quarries around the world. These works were realized over seventeen years within a career that spans over a quarter century. Through masterful technique and often dizzying compositions, the artist presents his magnificent colour images as thought-provoking studies of those deconstructed territories that are created as we dig into the earth for material in order to build our cities. These detailed, sumptuous photographs urge us to consider how we as viewers are simultaneously attracted yet repulsed by these landscapes. Somewhere, while a building is created, a landscape is being destroyed."--BOOK JACKET.

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