Over a twenty-five year career exploring the landscape as transformed by industry, the celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has accumulated a body of work on large scale quarries around the world. Including Canada, Italy, China, Spain, Portugal, India and America these thought provoking studies of sites that are created as we dig into the earth for material in order to build our cities, urge us to consider how we as viewers are simultaneously attracted yet repulsed by these landscapes - somewhere a building is created while a landscape is destroyed.
Quarries
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
Author: Edward Burtynsky
Publisher: Steidl
Publication Date:
2009
Print Length: 176 pages
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Edward Burtynsky: Anthropocene
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Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal & Nicholas de Pencier
Edward Burtynsky: African Studies
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Edward Burtynsky, Deborah Bräutigam, Raffi Khatchadourian, Christopher Littlewood, Marc Mayer, Azu Nwagbogu
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