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.
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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.
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Add this copy of China to cart. $57.80, fair condition, Sold by JWMah rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Steidl/ICP.
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Burtynsky, Edward. Acceptable in Acceptable jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" (USA) Stated first edition. No markings, the foot of the spine is abraided showing the boards beneath the cover cloth, there is a faint stain to the upper right corner of the front cover, and the upper left corner of the back cover, from a bit of water intrusion, water intrusion to the top corner tips of pages making them slightly wavy, hinges solid, pages clean, thus Acceptable only, in Good (-) only dust jacket wich is rubbed and with loss to foot of spine. DJ is in mylar sleeve. Large format grey cloth, 148pp. Amazing colour photos of China's industrial sites, and shipyards with essays. A heavy book. (5.0 JMLVR 206/a0.
Add this copy of China to cart. $150.00, like new condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Steidl.
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Add this copy of China: the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky (First to cart. $330.40, like new condition, Sold by Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Albuquerque, NM, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Steidl Verlag.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 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. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 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."
