Edward Burtynsky
Shipbreaking #13, Chittagong, Bangladesh
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December 18, 07:38 PM GMT
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Edward Burtynsky
b. 1955
chromogenic print, mounted, framed, signed in ink on an artist's label and with a Robert Koch Gallery label on the reverse, 2000, printed in 2001, artist's proof no. one of 2 in addition to the numbered edition of 15
image: 17⅞ by 22 in. (45.4 by 55.9 cm.)
frame: 26⅞ by 30¾ in. (68.3 by 78.1 cm.)
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, 2004
Lori Pauli, Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky (Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 2003), p. 141
Edward Burtynsky’s harrowing photographs confront the realities of industrialization and abuse of Earth’s natural resources. The Ship Breaking series is one of the most essential images in Burtynsky’s oeuvre, in which he documents the dismantling of cargo ships in Bangladesh and India. Burtynsky presents these sites with dystopian overtones, analyzing the behemoth ship forms with criticism and awe in equal measure. In an interview he described his unforgettable experience, “I was thrown into this frenetic landscape. I felt I was being overtaken by this crazy Mad Max world where Lilliputian workers were up against a giant that they were taking down a piece at a time” (“The Essential Element: An Interview with Edward Burtynsky”, Manufactured Landscapes, p. 55).
Another print of Shipbreaking #13, Chittagong, Bangladesh is held in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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