Burtynsky: Quarries Tapa dura - 2007

E-135: Steidl. Very Good. 2009. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Steidl, Gottingen, Germany. 2009. 191 pgs. Illustrated with color plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. After some 25 years of exploring the impact of industry on our planet, the celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has accumulated a substantial body of work documenting the world's major quarries--in Canada, Italy, China, Spain, Portugal, India and America. Quarries are, of course, a crucial source for the buildings we construct, and as such, a negative correlative of what we add to the world--as well as a tangible (and neglected) evidence for our ongoing dependence on its resources. Somewhere a building is being created while a landscape is being… Leer más

Steidl. hardcover. Like New /Very Good. 235x19x187.

Steidl, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by the photographer.

Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2007. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 191 pages. Features essays by Michael Mitchell. A striking collection of 80 color photographs taken by Burtynsky over the course of seventeen years at various quarry sites around the world. A very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Signed by Burtynsky on the half title page.