Edward Burtynsky: Salt Pans: Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat,

Edward Burtynsky: Salt Pans: Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India

Salt Pans is Edward Burtynskyâ‚¬s newest book in his acclaimed ongoing series of photographs exploring different industrialized landscapes across the world. Consisting of 31 aerial photos of the salt pans in the Little Rann of Kutch, India, the project is the result of months of intricate negotiations and preparations. These striking geometric images, taken in an intense ten-day period during which Burtynsky photographed from a helicopter, present the pans, wells and vehicle tracks as abstract, painterly patterns: subtly colored rectangles crossed by grids of gestural lines. And yet the reality behind the ironic beauty of Burtynskyâ‚¬s pictures is a harsh one. Each year 100,000 poorly paid Agariya workers toil in the pans, extracting over a million tons of salt from the floodwaters of the nearby Arabian Sea. Furthermore, receding groundwater levels, combined with debt, diminishing market values as well as a lack of governmental support, threaten the future of this 400-year-old tradition and the lives dependent on it.
"The images in this book are not about the battles being fought on the ground, Burtynsky writes. "Rather, they examine this ancient method of providing one of the most basic elements of our diet; as primitive industry and as abstract two-dimensional human marks upon the landscape."
Country USA
Brand Steidl
Manufacturer Steidl
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9783958292406
ReleaseDate 2016-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9783958292406

Country	USA
Brand	Steidl
Manufacturer	Steidl
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9783958292406
ReleaseDate	2016-10-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9783958292406

Edward Burtynsky: Salt Pans: Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India

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