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Burtynsky: Quarries.
Photographs by Edward Burtynsky. Text by Michael Mitchell.
Steidl,
Gottingen,
2007.
176 pp.,
80 color illustrations,
15x12".
Publisher's Description
After some 25 years of exploring the impact of industry on our planet, the celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has accumulated a substantial body of work documenting the world's major quarries-in Canada, Italy, China, Spain, Portugal, India and America. Quarries are, of course, a crucial source for the buildings we construct, and as such, a negative correlative of what we add to the world-as well as a tangible (and neglected) evidence for our ongoing dependence on its resources. Somewhere a building is being created while a landscape is being destroyed, and, as Burtynsky writes, 'quarries…are places that are outside of our normal experience, yet we partake of their output on a daily basis.' His images of these plundered landscapes are simultaneously beautiful and disquieting.
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