Quarries |  | Creator: Edward Burtynsky
Publisher: Steidl
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 566459
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 191
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 14.8 x 11.5 x 1
ISBN: 3865214568
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865214560
ASIN: 3865214568
Publication Date: June 30, 2009
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Product 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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Immense book September 7, 2008
Mr Cesar Harada (London, UK)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It is a big big book. The compositions are powerful, the colors, and the details. You are realy in there, in the depth, the immensity of the quarries. For those who know quarries, it is a real travel. Amazing.
A Great Photographer November 4, 2007
Lawrence L. Powell (Weston, Fl)
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
Burtynsky shoots stunning pictures. There are many great photographers (and photography books) out there but his pictures are full of color and precision and the subject matter is a wonder to behold.
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