»In which the infrastructure is built anew

A new Edward Burtynsky exhibition arrived at the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco. Edward Burtynsky's photography continues to amaze me with its powerful details of the man-made landscape in industry and urban renewal. The Chinese series has some breath-taking portraits of cities teeming with factory workers, seemingly stripped of their individuality, just as his earlier landscapes of mining areas showed a denuded earth without its once-proud trees, hills, and rocks. Burtynsky's first solo retrospective, Manufactured Landscapes, runs at the Brooklyn Museum through January; it showed at Stanford University earlier this year, and had a marvelous exhibit catalog, Yale University Press.