Burtynsky, Edward: Catalog of Photographs

Burtynsky, Edward: Catalog of photographs selected for National Gallery of Canada exhibition. Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky. With essays by Lori Pauli, Kenneth Baker, Mark Haworth-Booth. National Gallery of Canada in Association with Yale UP, New Haven, CT, 2003.

Rev. Rebecca Solnit. "Creative Destruction," in Books & the Arts Section. The Nation 277.6 (13 August 2003): 33-36. (Also nicely rev. Melville McLean from Newcastle, ME, on Amazon.com page for the catalog [URL too complex and ephemeral to paste here].) According to Solnit, "Edward Burtysnsky's photographs are large, colorful and mostly ravishing, despite their subjects. They show seldom-seen industrial landscapes, the places from which resources come to us and to which they go when we're done with them: mines, oilfields, refineries, quarries, dumps"—documenting the effect of modern technology on the landscape, ecosystems, and the planet (33). See Solnit for EB and EB's place in a tradition of environmentally charged landscape photography.