Art Review
A God’s-Eye-View of Earth’s Destruction
Edward Burtynsky's photographs once offered a prescient vision of large-scale anthropogenic changes; now, they feel more and more like a pretext for aesthetic dazzle.
Edward Burtynsky
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Edward Burtynsky, Who Captures Reality of Environmental Disaster, Recognized for “Outstanding Contribution to Photography”
Burtynsky’s work captures wide-angle views of industrial processes and waste and their interactions with natural ecosystems.
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The Wonders and Terrors of Humanity's Impact on Earth
Featuring stunning landscape photography, the documentary Anthropocene surveys a new era of human-driven geology.
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Edward Burtynsky Depicts Our Alien Domain
The photographer's large-scale images depict landscapes altered and scarred by human industry and development.
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Stirring Images of Our Impact on the Environment
Anthropocene drives home the fact that climate change, ecological destruction, and species extinction are all present-day concerns, not consequences to be dealt with by our descendants.
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Aerial Photographs Convey Humanity's Devastating Effects on Nature
Documenting infernal encounters between human activity and the planet, Edward Burtynsky's multidisciplinary Anthropocene Project is a grave call for change.
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Artists Confront the Radioactive Landscapes of the United States
Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape at UB Art Galleries in Buffalo examines the nuclear past and future of the United States.
In Brief
Edward Burtynsky Uses Award Money to Launch Photography Grant
On Monday the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA) announced the winners of this year's Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, which come with CAD 25,000 cash (~USD 18,700).
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Aestheticizing the Reality of a Polluted River
Originating in the Himalayas, the Yamuna river flows through New Delhi and accounts for more than 70% of the city’s water supply.
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Sunshine Tinged with Noir at Paris Photo LA
LOS ANGELES — The red carpet at Paramount Pictures Studios didn’t lead to a movie premiere or an awards ceremony, but rather the Lower East Side — or at least its facsimile in the studio’s New York backlot, where brownstone and cast-iron buildings hosted pop-up galleries and bookshops. This was the
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Flow Charts: Edward Burtynsky’s Photos of the World’s Watery Parts
It’s well known that landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky thinks big — big subjects, big photographs. His large-format prints (dimensions up to 48 x 64 inches are not uncommon) match the physical scope of the oil industry, quarries, and ship breaking, as well as their thematic implications.