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TITLE: Edward Burtynsky in the Wake of Progress: Images of the Industrial Landscape
SPEAKER: Edward Burtynsky
EVENT DATE: 06/12/2003
RUNNING TIME: 72 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky reviewed his 20-year career. His large-scale photographs of sites in the United States, Canada, Italy, Bangladesh, India and China are challenging. While they depict the degradation of nature due to quarrying, mining, railcutting, recycling, oil refining and ship breaking, they convey a sense of awe and beauty thus provoking a new awareness of the landscape of our time.
Speaker Biography: Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1955, Edward Burtynsky graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical University in Toronto with a bachelor's degree in Photographic Arts. His work is included in the collections of the Bibliotheque National, Paris, France; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.