Edward Burtynsky
Birthday: 1955-02-22 Place of Birth: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Synopsis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edward Burtynsky OC is a Canadian photographer and artist who has achieved international recognition for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. His work is housed in more than fifteen major museums including the Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Burtynsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Manufactured Landscapes
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.