Edward Burtynsky
Photographic Artist
Edward Burtynsky is a photographic artist whose depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of over fifty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His imagery explores the intricate link between industry and nature, combining the raw elements of mining, quarrying, manufacturing, shipping, oil production and recycling into eloquent, highly expressive visions.
How does the oil industry transform America’s landscape? This was partly the topic of Edward Burtynsky’s book “Oil.” Here, he discusses his stunning photograph of the Kern Oil Field in […]
If you want to make great images, you need to have an inquiring mind and ask a lot of questions. “If you just accept the world the way it is […]
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The photographic artist walks us through the backstory of several images from his series about oil.
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You have to “give yourself over to the visual experience” and try to understand an image’s intellectual and psychological context.
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Today’s technology allows “casual happy snappers” to come up with some cool images. But ultimately the strength of good photography is in knowing one’s self and responding to emotions.
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The photographer says there’s a sense of melancholy and sadness in his work relating to “the destruction to the creation of the things that we build” and the resulting loss […]
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The photographer walks us through his process of finding subjects, scouting out locations and scenes, and looking for the best moment to take a photograph.
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A conversation with the photographic artist.
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