Over the past twenty-five years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale color photographs of the landscapes of mining, quarrying, railcutting, recycling, oil refining, and shipbreaking uncover a stark, almost sublime beauty in the residue of industrial “progress.” The implicit social and environmental upheavals that underlie these images make them powerful emblems of our times.
This handsome catalogue of the first major retrospective of Burtynsky’s work features essays by Lori Pauli, Kenneth Baker, and Mark Haworth-Booth, as well as a wide-ranging interview with the artist by Michael Torosian. The book includes sixty-four color plates.
Published in association with the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Exhibition Schedule:Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (September 13, 2005 - January 15, 2006)
- ISBN10 0300099436
- ISBN13 9780300099430
- Publish Date 11 March 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300099430