Edward Burtynsky has for decades been lensing large scale photographs that document the often devastating visual impact of humans on our environment en masse. The wide angle landscapes he frames are almost always the corollary conclusion of man’s need and abuse of materials, whether a seemingly endless axis of stockpiled iron ore from Canadian mining communities or a countless assemblage of towering skyscrapers set against a meltingly hot Chinese horizon. As an artist who’s body of work stands as an artifact invoking environmentalism, Burtynsky does not use his alien panoramas explicitly for political intrigue. Instead, placed cleanly in galleries around the globe, his massive photographs are taken in on their own visual merits without forced intention, quietly conveying that we are in fact trashing our own planet without directly stating the obvious. A quarter of a million dollar U.S. box office take, Jennifer Baichwal’s poetic 2006 film (2007 selected Sundance entry), Manufactured Landscapes,...
- 12/11/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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