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China: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky (First Printing)

Publisher: Göttingen, Germany: Steidl Verlag, 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 3865211305
Condition: Fine / Fine
Item #: 112524

$295.00

Specifics

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine gray cloth-covered boards with title stamped in silver on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text by Edward Burtynsky. Essays by Marc Mayer, Ted C. Fishman, and Mark Kingwell. Includes captions with extended information on the images and artist's curriculum vitae. Design and sequence by Edward Burtynsky, Marcus Schubert, and Jim Panou. 148 pp., with 77 four-color plates (including a four-color plate spanning a two-page gatefold) and numerous additional color illustrations, exquisitely printed by Steidl on fine matt art paper. 11-5/8 x 14-5/8 inches.

Condition

Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Description

From the publisher: "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 of places. These images are metaphors for the dilemma of our modern existence: we are drawn by desire -- the chance at good living, to have all creature comforts -- 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 an 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 under siege through western colonialism and technological progress, then China is on the brink of a tsunami, that is only just forming and is nowhere close to expressing its full impact."