Edward Burtynsky
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Edward Burtynsky, OC (born 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist.
Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, he studied at the Ryerson Polytechnic University, where he obtained a B.A. in photographic arts, and at the Niagara College, where he obtained a diploma in graphic arts. His work appears in a number of museums, corporate collections, and books.
Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of scarred or altered landscapes: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. He was invited to China to photograph the construction of the Three Gorges Dam project. The grand, inspiring beauty of these images is often in tension with the troubled environments they depict.
In 2006, Burtynsky was the subject of an award-winning documentary film, Manufactured Landscapes, which was shown at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. [1] and was named an officer of the Order of Canada
Burtynsky currently serves on the board of directors of Worldchanging.
[edit] Selected bibliography
Lori Pauli. Manufactured Landscapes : The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky. Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09943-6.
[edit] External links
- Edward Burtynsky Photographics Works
- Edward Burtynsky Gallery site
- Audio interview with Edward Burtynsky
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