Edward Burtynsky

24 November 2012 - 1 December 2013 Vermont

Edward Burtynsky (b. 1955) is a Canadian photographer who has achieved international recognition for his large-format color photographs of global industrial landscapes
INFORMATION

Edward Burtynsky, Highway #5, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2009

Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping landscape views where modern industrial activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His imagery combines the raw elements of mining, quarrying, manufacturing, shipping, oil production, and recycling into exquisitely detailed, exactingly rendered, and unexpectedly sublime landscapes.
Edward Burtynsky, Rock of Ages #59, Abandoned Section, Adam-Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont, 1991

In a series initiated in the early 1990s, Burtynsky has photographed active and abandoned stone quarries in Vermont, Italy, India, China and Iberia. Rock of Ages #59 (1991) shows an overhead view of the abandoned granite quarry in Barre, Vermont. Given its form through a process of extraction, this abandoned quarry is now a monumental void filled with turquoise water. Burtynsky has described these Vermont quarries as “inverted skyscrapers” or “residual landscapes.”
Edward Burtynsky, Nickel Tailings No. 31, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996

Burtynsky’s “Tailing” series from 1995-96 document slurries of nickel production waste from mining operations in Sudbury, Ontario. In Nickel Tailings #31 (1996), a river of vivid, blood-orange slurry cuts through the rural landscape. Burtynsky renders this tailing as an abstract and dramatic composition, while documenting its environmental impact as an ecological wound.
Installation Views
Artworks
Press
- Press
  ART NEW ENGLAND
  Inaugural Exhibition March 1, 2013
  Georg Baselitz, Edward Burtynsky, Neil Jenney, and A.R. Penck
Publications
- Edward Burtynsky
  2013
  Softcover 32 pages
  Publisher: Hall Art Foundation
  ISBN: 978-0-9896069-2-9
  Dimensions: 11 x 9 inches
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Artist
- Artists
  Edward Burtynsky
Installation views: Jeffrey Nintzel

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