Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky (2005)

Edward Burtynsky OC (born February 22, 1955 in St. Catharines ) is a Canadian artist who became known for large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , the National Gallery of Canada and the Bibliothèque nationale de France show his works.

Life

Burtynsky's parents came to Canada as immigrants from Ukraine in 1951 . His father worked on the assembly line at General Motors . With his father, Burtynsky developed black and white films in the darkroom at home and learned how to make prints. In the early 1970s, Burtynsky began taking photography courses. He graduated from Niagara College in Welland with a degree in graphic arts in 1976 . He later earned a bachelor's degree in photography from the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute .

In his work "Oil" he documents the cycle of extraction, utilization and consumption of the raw material oil. The nice thing about Edward Burtynsk's photographs: They don't raise any one-sided moral prejudice. The ugly thing about it: It shows that we are all responsible for the environmental destruction caused by the extraction of raw materials.

Publications

1983 - 1985 Breaking Ground: Mines, Railcuts and Homesteads , Canada, USA

1991 - 1992 Vermont Quarries , USA

1997 - 1999 Urban Mines: Metal Recycling , Canada, USA

1993 - Carrara Quarries , Italy

1995-1996 Tailings , Canada

1999 - 2008 Oil Canada, China, Azerbaijan, USA

2000 - Makrana Quarries , India

2000 - 2001 Shipbreaking, Bangladesh

2004 - 2006 China

2006 - Iberia Quarries, Portugal

2007 - Australian Mines , Australia

2009 - 2013 Water Canada, USA, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Iceland, India

Prizes and awards

In April 2006, Burtynsky was made a Knight of the Order of Canada . He also holds three honorary doctorates : in law from Queen's University (Kingston) ; in Photography from Ryerson University , Toronto ; and one in fine arts from Montserrat College of Art , Boston . In 2005 he won the TED Prize .

Exhibitions

• 2020: Anthropocene, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

literature

• Pauli, Lori. Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky . Essays by Mark Haworth-Booth and Kenneth Baker, interview by Michael Torosian. Ottawa, Canada: National Gallery of Canada, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 2003. ISBN 0-300-09943-6 .
• Granta, This overheating world. The Magazine of New Writing, 83rd Fall 2003. Noah Richler: The Evidence of Man, Edward Burtynsky. p. 95.
• Before the flood . Essay by Gary Michael Dault. 2003
• "Industrial China's Ravaging of Nature, Made Disturbingly Sublime," New York Times, MANOHLA DARGIS, June 20, 2007.

Works

(chronological, newest first)

• Anthropocene. Göttingen: Steidl . 2018. ISBN 978-3-95829-489-9 .
• Salt pans. Goettingen. Steidl publishing house. 2016. ISBN 978-3-95829-240-6 .
• Water . 2013. English: 2nd edition 2013, ISBN 978-3869306797 ; French: ISBN 978-3869306872 .
• Edward Burtynsky: Oil . Essays by Paul Roth, Michael Mitchell, and William E. Rees. Steidl / Corcoran, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-943-5 .
• Quarries . Essay by Michael Mitchell, Göttingen: Steidl. 2007. ISBN 978-3-86521-456-0 ( German Photo Book Prize 2008)
• Edward Burtynsky: China . Essays by Ted Fishman, Mark Kingwell, Marc Mayer, and the artist. Göttingen: Steidl. 2005. ISBN 978-3-86521-130-9 .

Web links

• Edward Burtynsky Photographics Works
• Edward Burtynsky Gallery site
• Edward Burtynsky at Steidl Verlag
• Audio interview with Edward Burtynsky
• Images and profile at Specifier Magazine
• Manufactured Landscapes , Ping Magazine . An interview with Burtynsky interspersed with his photographs.
• Exhibition Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
• Edward Burtynsky on kunstaspekte.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edward Burtynsky Gallery site
2. ↑ ^{a b} Pauli 2003, p. 11
3. ↑ Torosian 2003, p. 47
4. ↑ "Is this the world we want?" Friday No. 31, August 2, 2012, pp. 24 and 25
5. ↑ TED Prize Wish: Edward Burtynsky on manufactured landscapes at the TED conference 2005