We make money not art (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photographer Burtynsky propses a 10.000-year gallery to go along with the foundation's plans for The Clock of the Long Now in a remote mountain site.
kottke (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
In order to create art for the 10,000-year Clock chamber, Edward Burtynsky has been investigating how to make photographic prints that last a long time . Burtynsky went on a quest for a technical solution. He thought that automobile paint, which holds up to harsh sunlight, might work if it could be run through an inkjet printer, but that didn't work out. Then he came across a process first discovered...
Long Views (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Stone ink gallery Photographer Edward Burtynsky made a formal proposal for a permanent art gallery in the chamber that encloses the 10,000-year Clock in its Nevada mountain. The gallery would consist of art in materials as durable as the alloy steel and jade of the Clock itself, and it would be curated slowly over the [...]
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
In his teens, photographer Edward Burtynsky worked in the factory of General Motors in his native Ontario. The experience gave him a taste for "seeing large things in a big perspective," as he describes it. He built his career on stark, amazingly beautiful images of the effects of industry on the environment — to him, the huge, jagged rocks in a massive quarry pit spoke volumes more about the natural...
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The shortlist of photographers for this years Prix Pictet award have been posted. This years theme was water and photographers were challenged to capture it's abundance or lack of. The goal of the competition is… ... continue reading
OS Galaxy (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Edward Burtynsky takes pictures of manufactured landscapes . Absolutely stunning images and stories from the industrialization of China.
:::Mo(nu)ments::: ©Ine Dehandschutt (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
This is the kind of documentary photography I love/envy. ©Edward Burtynsky...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
photo by Edward Burtynsky via :: The Globe and Mail It’s no secret that Treehugger’s not a big fan of extracting energy from the Alberta Tar Sands . Oil Shale in Colorado doesn’t really rate highly on our list of good things either. Well, it appears that the U.S. Conference of Mayors agrees with us. Resolution Against Using High Carbon Fuels Though it’s jus...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
By JMG Obviously I need to watch movies faster. Almost a year ago today I posted about wanting to watch Manufactured Landscapes , featuring the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky, mainly shot in China. I finally got around to it. Not only is the movie visually arresting, but it is very, very disturbing. Surprisingly to me, the sparse narration includes a pretty good description of peak oil. The...
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Philadelphia, 1925: China 2005: [Top picture from Shorpy; bottom from Edward Burtynsky]
atlas(t) (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
here's an interesting broadcast from To the Best of Our Knowledge from a few months ago. (Listen to it here or click through below for more info) TO SPRAWL OR NOT TO SPRAWL Subdivisions. Industrial Parks. Strip Malls. Gridlock. Sprawl...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
(A nod to Michael Marchman who gave me a copy of this film!) MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES Film School (KUCI) Hosts: Nathan Callahan and Mike Kaspar An interview with Jennifer Baichwal director of Manufactured Landscapes. Edward Burtynsky is internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of nature transformed by industry. Manufactured Landscapes – a stunning documentary by award winning director...
Liverpool Art and Culture (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
There will be a special rescheduled celebration of the opening of Variable Capital: Wednesday 28 May 2008, 6pm - 10pm at the Bluecoat. School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX Throughout the evening Susannah Hewlett will present It's Not You, a live...
Liverpool Art and Culture (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
The Bluecoat will reopen on Friday 23rd May - Hurrah! The Bluecoat will reopen on Friday 23 May 2008, after a temporary closure following a fire, with an exciting programme of exhibitions, talks and live performances for the Bank Holiday...
Crafty Green Poet (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Edward Burtynsky is internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of landscapes transformed by industry. Manufactured Landscapes – an award winning documentary by director Jennifer Baichwal – follows Burtynsky to China, where he captures the effects of the country's massive industrial revolution and to Bangladesh where he documents the work of ship breakers on a beach. There is a strange...
