#Burtynsky hashtag - Bluesky

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4 months ago

Wheels Up What the photographer Edward Burtynsky found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia

“the #Canadian #photographer Edward #Burtynsky has built a career documenting what he calls “altered landscapes”—tangled highway overpasses, sprawling oil refineries … In 1999, he visited a tire-disposal site outside Modesto, California” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Side-by-Side

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7 months ago

The image is split into two sections: the top half features a surrealist wartime painting depicting a desolate, cratered battlefield under a turbulent sky, where shattered trees stand like charred poles, twisted metal litters the ground, and shafts of light cut diagonally across the scene, highlighting the devastation. The bottom half contains two side-by-side photographs of a barren, dark landscape with a winding, vividly orange-red river cutting through it; the stark color of the water contrasts sharply with the muted earth tones and hazy, lifeless background, evoking a sense of toxicity or contamination.

Paul Nash, The Menin Road (1919) + Edward Burtynsky, Nickel Tailings #34-35 (1996)

Environmental destruction in WWI and now

#SideBySide #Art #PaulNash #MeninRoad #Burtynsky

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Edgy4sst (2024)

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8 months ago

#Burtynsky in #awe

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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8 months ago

Earth’s Poet of Scale Edward Burtynsky’s monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet.

“This ‘great acceleration’ … is the most anomalous stretch in human history, and during the past four decades #Burtynsky has been almost certainly its greatest visual chronicler …”
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

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