"Edward Burtynsky: China Photographs"
Carleton University Art Gallery
Curated by Diana Nemiroff
23 November 2009 – 31 January 2010
Carleton University Art Gallery
Curated by Diana Nemiroff
23 November 2009 – 31 January 2010
Edward Burtynsky began thinking about photographing in China around the time that official approval was given to start construction on the Three Gorges Dam – a project that forever changed the face of the Yangtze River and the lives of the people living on its banks. He then set out to create a portrait of the 21st-century industrial giant that China has rapidly become since the planning of the Dam began.
China offered Burtynsky enterprise on a scale that suited his artistic vision as well as his journalistic intent. He has documented every aspect of its growth – from the Dam project to its shipyards, its steel and coal industries, its manufacturing sector, recycling, and urban renewal – in photographs that reveal the extent of China’s transformation. Individually, his images impress by their sheer visual magnificence; collectively, their meaning resides in the evidence they catalogue of how the cycles of resource extraction and manufacturing have changed the face of the earth.
Burtynsky's photographs were featured in the well-known film "Manufactured Landscapes".
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