Eat your heart out Richard Serra. http://www.edwardburtynsky.com > ships > shipbreaking.
After reading this post I was referred to here by a friend:
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
It turns out to be doubly relevant to recent posts: not only containing beautiful images of manufactured landscapes, but also absolutely stunning images of shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
via Nico Sy, who doesn’t have a blog but probably should.
the Herald Finster interview was very good, I felt it provided a clear lens of intent to see and admire the ‘beauty’ of these images or else we often fall in the trap of commodification of this industrial aesthetic. wouldn’t you agree?
Becker:
there’s also a film about Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes. I don’t know that I would describe it as outstanding (the filmmaker seems as interested in Burtynsky as the landscapes he photographs, which is fine, but less interesting to me), but its worth a netflix.
Saurabh:
Yes, I do think the Finster interview is worth reading for exactly that reason. While I don’t think I agree exactly with where he draws the lines between proper appreciation and improper commodification (I would probably be more liberal than Finster in terms of what I think would be a legitimate transformation of an industrial site), I do think the arguments he make (and the drawing of that line) are important.
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