The residual landscape (China)
I've already posted two photographs by Edward Burtynsky (see "Naxos Quarries"), but I went clicking back through his site last night and decided to add some more, this time expanding BLDGBLOG's ongoing exploration of space in China.
Here, then, are photographs of factories, from Burtynsky's Manufacturing series, and they're so strikingly self-similar and excessively color-coded they look like IKEA assembly plants, not factories at all.
Take a look:
[Images: From top to bottom: "Manufacturing #18, Cankun Factory, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province" (2005); "Manufacturing #16, Bird Mobile, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province" (2005); "Manufacturing #17,Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province" (2005); and "Manufacturing #11, Youngor Textiles, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province" (2005) – and substantially larger versions are available if you click on them].
Burtynsky uses photography to explore what he calls "the residual landscape," or the geo-cultural margins of "the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on."
And some of his images are so stunning I might post a few more soon...
Here, then, are photographs of factories, from Burtynsky's Manufacturing series, and they're so strikingly self-similar and excessively color-coded they look like IKEA assembly plants, not factories at all.
Take a look:
[Images: From top to bottom: "Manufacturing #18, Cankun Factory, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province" (2005); "Manufacturing #16, Bird Mobile, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province" (2005); "Manufacturing #17,Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province" (2005); and "Manufacturing #11, Youngor Textiles, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province" (2005) – and substantially larger versions are available if you click on them].
Burtynsky uses photography to explore what he calls "the residual landscape," or the geo-cultural margins of "the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on."
And some of his images are so stunning I might post a few more soon...
