By Ariella Budik
Financial Times
Activist or aesthete? Poet or propagandist? Redeemer or pornographer of disaster? Where does Edward Burtynsky, the creator of massive photographs of our ravaged planet, stand on the relationship between his art and impoverished nature? A retrospective of Burtynsky’s four-decade (and counting) career at the International Center of Photography in New York doesn’t answer the question, but it gives viewers plenty of ammunition with which to support whatever conclusion they choose.
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