Burtynsky, Edward

Extraction / Abstraction [SIGNED 2024 1ST EDITION]

Steidl, 2024. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Steidl, 2024. Hardcover in pictorial boards. First Edtion, First Printing. 240 pages with numerous color photographic images throughout. SIGNED by Edward Burtynsky on an paper interleaf laid in before the title page. BOOK CONDITION: Fine/As New (still in the original shrinkwrap opened only to add the signed interleaf). SIGNED

Published on the occasion of Edward Burtynsky’s largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date, at the Saatchi Gallery, London, Extraction / Abstraction looks deeply at the key subjects and signature images spanning his 45-year career. Alongside Burtynsky’s compelling photographs, the book includes texts by celebrated art historian Simon Schama, who examines Burtynsky’s work in light of the question “Can art help save the world?”, and by curator Marc Mayer, former director of the National Gallery of Canada, who provides an overview of the photographer’s achievements as technician, journalist and artist. Extraction / Abstraction presents a dichotomy of Burtynsky’s image-making imperative: the lucid and informed documentation of large-scale extractive processes, and how he transforms the landscapes of industry into complete abstractions. Other essential themes in his oeuvre such as agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure and waste also find their rightful place here. With more than 130 color plates, the book furthermore has a special section, the “Process Archive,” featuring previously unpublished, behind-the-scenes photographs of Burtynsky at work on the ground and in the air throughout his career. The archive provides a glimpse into the artist’s progression through the evolution of the medium itself, from mid twentieth-century large-format analogue (film-based) cameras, through to twenty-first-century high-resolution digital technologies, including explorations into photogrammetry and augmented reality. As new. Item #4809
ISBN: 9783969993132

Price: $275.00