Went to see a Burtynsky show this past weekend (Not the more recent China work - but a retrospective group covering from his early work to the Three Gorges work).
I must say I was underwhelmed. I'm still not quite sure what it was about the work that didn't click for me. The prints were gorgeous. Some individual photographs were quite intriguing. But overall they left me cold.
By contrast, when I went saw a bunch of Gursky and Struth photographs at the Tate Modern a few years ago my experience was they were far better than I expected and I came away from them excited and wanting more
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