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Socar Oil Fields #6, Baku, Azerbaijan
2006
Edward Burtynsky
Photography
109 x 159,5 cm
Devoid of any image manipulation when capturing environmental chaos as shown in these Baku oilfields, Burtynsky’s photographs could be termed documentary. Yet the artistic force of these images confer a metaphorical power upon them at the same as propelling them towards abstraction.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Edward Burtynsky
Canada
Born in 1955
Born 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Lives and works in Toronto.
From his childhood in Ontario, spent amongst steelworks, electric power stations and other petrochemical factories, Edward Burtynsky has retained a taste for exploring the relationship between the Earth and technology. From Australian silver mines and Carrara marble quarries to Californian oilfields and the gigantic Three Gorges Dam construction site in China, his photographs of landscapes, whether disfigured, excavated or strewn with litter, all highlight the impact that industrial activity has had on the environment. At once appealing and repulsive, seductive and fearsome, his strikingly detailed photographs raise questions about the ecological upheavals caused by man.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Lives and works in Toronto.
From his childhood in Ontario, spent amongst steelworks, electric power stations and other petrochemical factories, Edward Burtynsky has retained a taste for exploring the relationship between the Earth and technology. From Australian silver mines and Carrara marble quarries to Californian oilfields and the gigantic Three Gorges Dam construction site in China, his photographs of landscapes, whether disfigured, excavated or strewn with litter, all highlight the impact that industrial activity has had on the environment. At once appealing and repulsive, seductive and fearsome, his strikingly detailed photographs raise questions about the ecological upheavals caused by man.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Artwork of
Edward Burtynsky
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