Skip to content

Tag Archives: Edward Burtynsky

a Burtynsky update

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Edward Burtynsky There are new photos on Burtynsky’s site. These are Australian mines. That first photo reminds me of Diebenkorn. The series in general recalls Maisel, of course. Not long after I wrote about how tired I was of large scale photos, my art history professor, knowing of my interest in Burtynsky, sent me a [...]

Filed in found | Also tagged , | Comments (1)

Burtynsky IV: a bad review

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Edward Burtynsky Apparently some people bristle at the thought of greater goals, criticize others for hoping for an improved world and have become so wrapped up in small matters and individual displays of taste that they can’t see the world in front of their nose. It’s mind-boggling that this old review of a Burtynsky show [...]

Filed in reflexive | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Burtynsky III: detachment and insignificance

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Edward Burtynsky One criticism of Burtynsky is that his photos de-emphasize human beings in favor of aesthetic composition, and are too detached, too impersonal and unemotional. People are lost among the lines and clutter of industrial landscapes. Are these people seeing the same photos I’m seeing? The photos contain almost nothing but the evidence of [...]

Filed in found | Also tagged , , | Comments (4)

Burtynsky II: sustainability and economics

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Edward Burtynsky Manufactured Landscapes, the film, is a good complement to Burtynsky’s stills, showing a closer perspective on the individuals, where the stills show humans ripping apart the landscape for natural resources. In the extras, a real estate business woman shows the crew around the house in what’s basically the Chinese version of Cribs, complete [...]

Filed in found | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Burtynsky I: China and the West, political and apolitical

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Edward Burtynsky Today I watched Manufacturing Landscapes (Youtube trailer), a documentary of Burtynsky at work in China. Aside from the film itself, the extras on the DVDs, especially the slideshow with commentary by Burtynsky, are wonderful. I learned that marble has a translucent quality and that Michaelangelo’s marble was taken from quarries with very highly [...]

Filed in found | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)