By Brian Bethune
Maclean's Magazine
One of Canada’s finest photographers considers his craft—and the relationship between his art and the truth—for a retrospective book.
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Toxicity’s Sublime Seductions: Edward Burtynsky
By Robert Shore
Elephant Magazine
‘I’m looking at humans and what they’re doing to the planet as if I were an alien’: beauty and terror blend in Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky’s industrial landscapes, which bear seductively powerful witness to the ways in which we are irrevocably changing our world. Robert Shore meets the great documenter of the Anthropocene.
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Read MoreEnergy and Landscape: Edward Burtynsky, Ella Hickson
BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking
Large-scale photographs showing the impact of humans on urban and natural environments are discussed by Canadian artist and 2005 TED prize winner Edward Burtynsky. Ella Hickson's new play Oil, directed by Carrie Cracknell, explores the politics of this natural resource from 1889 to present day. She's in conversation with Joe Douglas, director of a Dundee Rep production of John McGrath's drama The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil which is on tour this autumn. Plus, presenter Philip Dodd is joined by analysts Peter Atherton and Jeremy Leggett to consider how we meet energy demands in the face of climate change and a rapidly rising global population.
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Edward Burtynsky: the photographer finding art in rivers of toxic waste
By Alistair Sooke
The Telegraph
Ahead of a new exhibition of his work, the Canadian photographer tells Alastair Sooke about the toxic allure of the world's most perilous places.
‘I’ve been to China a dozen times,” says the 61-year-old landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky, “but I’ve never visited the Great Wall.” He smiles. “I don’t go to tourist places. I enter into worlds behind chain-link fences and barbed wire.”
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Read MoreThe 10 Best Artworks We Saw in Metro Phoenix in July 2016
By Lynn Trimble
Phoenix New Times
Due in part to a particularly robust lineup of local gallery exhibitions for July’s First and Third Friday art walks in downtown Phoenix, there was an abundance of great art on view during July 2016. We saw plenty of great art outside of Phoenix, too – especially in East Valley cities including Chandler and Mesa. But 10 works, pictured here, stood out from all the rest.
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How an art book helped catapult Edward Burtynsky’s career
The Globe and Mail
What a difference a book makes.
Edward Burtynsky was an established Canadian photographer who didn’t have much in the way of an international profile. Then along came the publication, in 2003, of Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky, tied in with his touring National Gallery of Canada exhibition. When the book, co-published by the National Gallery and Yale University Press, landed on shelves in major bookstores and museums around the world, the St. Catharines, Ont., native immediately felt the impact.
“All of a sudden I was getting calls from Europe. I was getting calls from the States,” Mr. Burtynsky recalls. “They were all saying, ‘This is really interesting and important work. How did I not know about you?’ ”
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Read MoreEdward Burtynsky Wants to Change How We See Water
FotoFest, Houston’s biennial art photography fair, bears witness to a planet in peril.
By Michael Agresta
Texas Observer
There’s a moment halfway through Manufactured Landscapes, a 2006 documentary about Edward Burtynsky, when the celebrated Canadian photographer tries to talk his way into an industrial site in Tianjin, China. The smog outside lies thick and foreboding; the media flack seems to sense that it will cast the company in a negative light. “It’s very dirty,” she tells Burtynsky. “I don’t think it’s a good day to make beautiful pictures.” Burtynsky’s translator tries to convince her: “But through his camera lens, through his eyes, it will appear beautiful.”
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Read MoreEdward Burtynsky establishes photography grant with Governor General's Award prize money
CBC News
Renowned Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky has decided to take his Governor General's Award prize money and give it all away.
Burtynsky was honoured by the Canada Council on Monday for his work promoting environmentalism through global industrial landscape photography — and now he wants to help others promote their own unique artistic visions.That's why he's turning the $25,000 financial portion of the award into an annual grant to help emerging Canadian photographers create and publish their first photography books.
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By Anthi Rozi
Archisearch
Edward Burtynsky was born in 1955 in Ontario Canada. He received his BAA in Photography / Media Studies from Ryerson University in 1982 and in 1985 founded Toronto Image Works. Early exposure to the sites of the General Motors plant in his hometown helped to formulate the development of his photographic work. His imagery explores the collective impact we as a species are having on the surface of the planet; an inspection of the human systems we`ve imposed onto natural landscapes.
His photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of over sixty major museums around the world. As an active lecturer on photographic art, Burtynsky`s speaking engagements have been held at the National Gallery of Canada, the Library of Congress in Washington, the TED conferences, among others. His images appear in numerous periodicals each year including National Geographic, the New York Times, The Smithsonian Magazine. Among his distinctions are the TED Prize, The Outreach award at the Rencontres d`Arles, the Roloff Beny Book Award. In 2006 he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Canada. His work is represented by numerous galleries internationally.
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NO. 224: EDWARD BURTYNSKY
By Tyler Green
The Modern Art Notes Podcast
Edward Burtynsky is one of North America’s most important photographers. In bodies of work such as “China,” and “Oil,” Burtynsky has conducted sustained examinations of mankind’s use of the planet’s natural resources and of the ways industry has transformed nature. His work has been the subject of dozens of major museum exhibitions around the world, including at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Burtynsky’s most recent show, “Water,” features nearly five dozen works mostly examining the ways in which human societies have re-made the natural environment in an effort to use water. The show originated at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans and was curated by Russell Lord. The book that accompanies the exhibition is published by Steidl. “Water” is on view at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Va. through May 15.
Air date: Feburary 18, 2016.
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Read MoreImmerse Yourself in the High-Tech Images of Acclaimed Photographer Edward Burtynsky
Artfix Daily
Explore humanity’s complicated relationship with our most precious natural resource through the lens of internationally renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky. The Chrysler Museum of Art’s winter/spring keynote exhibition, Edward Burtynsky: Water, includes more than 60 large-scale color photographs that form a global portrait of the intricate intersections of humanity and our most precious natural resource. The exhibition, organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art, will open to the public on Feb. 12 and run through May 15. Admission is free.
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Read MoreMilan : Edward Burtynsky, Agua Shock
By Enrica Vigano
The Eye of Photography
L’exposition Acqua Shock explore la relation controversée entre l’humanité et l’eau : liquide le plus précieux, ressource essentielle pour la vie, une partie essentielle de notre corps et de la planète.
Entre 2009 et 2014, Edward Burtynsky a voyagé sur cinq continents – depuis le Golfe du Mexique jusqu’aux rives du Gange – pour capter le cycle de vie de l’eau. Il a suivi le cours des rivières et a étudié les mers ; il a décrit les différents usages de l’eau, du culte jusqu’à l’agriculture et une fois de plus, comme à son habitude, il a scruté ce qui se passe sous la surface des choses.
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Read MorePRESS RELEASE | Principal photography has commenced on Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s feature documentary ANTHROPOCENE
That’s Photography with a D
Photographer Edward Burtynsky on 'Water' and the future of 3D
By Stephy Chung
CNN Style
Before there was Google Earth, there was Edward Burtynsky. Renown for his aerial images, the 60-year-old Canadian photographer has spent the greater part of three decades capturing what he describes as "nature, transformed through industry," or man-made industrial landscapes.
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