Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky, OCis a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. His work is housed in more than 50 museums including the Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth22 February 1955
CountryCanada
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I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
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Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
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Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.
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I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.