Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist who has achieved international recognition for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. Burtynsky’s most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict. He has made several excursions to China to photograph that country’s industrial emergence, and construction of one of the world’s largest engineering projects, the Three Gorges Dam. His work is housed in more than fifteen major museums including the Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Freeways in Los Angeles, California
Houston, Texas
Scrap Auto Engines, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
SOCAR Oil Fields Baku, Azerbaijan
Oil fields, Belridge, California
Oxford Tire Pile, Westley, California, USA
Silver Lake Operations, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia
C.N. Track, Skihist Provincial Park, British Columbia
Active Section, E.L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont
