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China

May 31, 2007- June 30, 2007

Edward Burtynsky

Charles Cowles Gallery

537 W 24th St

EDWARD BURTYNSKY’s photographs, monumental in both scale and subject, capture visions of nature that are outside the realm of ordinary experience. His quest to photograph landscapes which have been reshaped through human industry has taken him to recycling yards, oil refineries, quarries, and shipbreaking beaches.

BURTYNSKY's China series began in 2002 with the Three Gorges Dam Project and the latest work depicts both remnant and newly established zones of Chinese industrialization and its effects on the landscape and its inhabitants. Portraying the extreme expressions of Chinese industry, the photographs offer a privileged glimpse into the vast social and economic transformations currently underway in China.

BURTYNSKY uses a large format camera to capture the compositions in situ, creating images that are both striking and unsettling. While maintaining his aesthetic awareness, BURTYNSKY's new China photographs are more frenetic than the earlier works, capturing thousands of workers on the job, eating lunch, and changing shifts in color-coded unison. The busy activity of the state-of-the-art factories contrasts with the antiquated plants and desolate steel mills, which feel deserted in comparison. In continuation of a theme BURTYNSKY explored with his Shipbreaking series of 2000-01, he visited a shipbuilding yard in China where a fleet of freighters are being constructed to service China's growing port network.

The award-winning film Manufactured Landscapes directed by Jennifer Baichwal will be screened at the Film Forum June 20-July 3, 2007. For venues at other US locations, please visit zeitgeistfilms.com. Edward Burtynsky: The China Series will be on view at the Samek Gallery at Bucknell University, August 17-October 7, 2007. A monograph from Steidl China, with essays by Mark Kingwell, Ted Fishman, and Marc Mayer is available(180 pages, $85). There is a monograph that accompanied his mid-career retrospective, Manufactured Landscapes, organized by the National Gallery of Canada with essays by Lori Pauli, Mark Haworth-Booth, Kenneth Baker and an interview with Michael Torosian (160 pages, $55).

BURTYNSKY’s works are included in distinguished museum collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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Location   Gallery Charles Cowles Gallery Address 537 W 24th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-741-8999 Fax 212-741-6222 Hours Tue-Sat 10-6

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