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Background information
"Published on the occasion of largest and most comprehensive exhibition about Edward BURTYNSKY to date, the photo catalogue 'Extraction / Abstraction' looks deeply at the key subjects and signature images spanning his forty-five-year career. Alongside his compelling photographs, the book includes texts by celebrated art historian Simon Schama, who examines the work in light of the question 'Can art help save the world?', and by curator Marc Mayer,, who provides an overview of the photographer’s achievements as technician, journalist and artist.
Content
The photographic volume 'Extraction / Abstraction' by Edward BURTYNSKY presents a dichotomy of his 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 one-hundrer-thirty color plates, the volume furthermore has a special section, the 'Process Archive,' featuring previously unpublished, behind-the-scenes photographs of Edward BURTYNSKY at work on the ground and in the air throughout his career.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." (© Steidl Verlag, 2024)