| EDWARD BURTYNSKY |
Born in 1955 in Ontario, Edward Burtynsky is Canada’s most respected photographer. His work was featured in a major retrospective, Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky, held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa in 2003, which later traveled to the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Burtynsky is the subject of an award-winning documentary film, Manufactured Landscapes, which was shown at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. His work is preserved in many distinguished museum collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Burtynsky’s photographs have also been acquired for the corporate collections of Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan Bank.
Burtynsky’s large-scale, exquisitely detailed photographs document the many facets of nature as it is transformed by human industry. His quest to photograph extraordinary landscapes affected by “progress” has been worldwide, leading him to rock quarries, mines, shipbreaking yards and oil refineries. Burtynsky’s photographs of nature under siege can be disturbing, but they also have the power to transfix the viewer by their sweeping vistas and unexpected beauty.
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