'Yangtze: The Long River' (2010) by Israeli artist Nadav Kander is one of the most significant and beautiful (yes, beautiful) photographic series of the 21st century—here a few more instagram.com/p/CBkqW42DnAw/
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The humongous, gargantuan Three Gorges Dam in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China, as photographed by Kander in 2007.
In 2010, NASA scientists calculated that the dam slows down Earth's rotation increasing the Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds...
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The Chongqing section is photographically and dramatically spot-on... As Kander states, 'China's progress is rapid and profound. These are photographs that can never be taken again'
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'Yibin III, Sichuan Province' (2007)
'A formalness and unease', says Kander, 'began to permeate my pictures after several trips to different parts of the river. I was responding to this country that feels both at the beginning of a new era and at odds with itself...'
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