书名：Edward Burtynsky: African Studies / 爱德华·伯廷斯基：非洲研究
定价：850.0
ISBN：9783969991459
作者：Deborah Brautigam
版次：1
出版时间：2023-03

内容提要：

题 目：Edward Burtynsky: African Studies / 爱德华·伯廷斯基：非洲研究

作 者：Deborah Brautigam

出 版：Steidl，2023

装 帧：精装，208页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：37*29.5 cm

 

 

In Edward Burtynsky’s recent photographs, produced across the African continent, the patterns and scars of human-altered landscapes initially appear to form an abstract painterly language; they reference the sublime and often surreal qualities of human mark-making. While chronicling the major themes of terraforming and extraction, urbanization and deforestation, African Studies conveys the unsettling reality of sweeping resource depletion on both a human and industrial scale.

 

From natural landscapes to artisanal mining and mechanized extraction, several distinct chapters culminate with China in Africa: a series depicting the economic inroads being made by China, including the interiors of gigantic newly built manufacturing plants. This project brings together the work of seven years, presenting the latest instalment in Burtynsky’s ongoing oeuvre.

 

Homo sapiens began migrating out of Africa as early as 200,000 years ago. Fast-forward to the twenty-first century and we’ve come full circle, returning to one of the last places on Earth to be swept into the unrelenting machinations of the human industrial complex. With our ever-increasing population and appetite for unlimited economic and technological expansion, the African continent, boasting a tremendous wealth of unexploited resources, is a fragile, final frontier―resting squarely in the crosshairs of progress. - Edward Burtynsky