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September 1, 2010
Edward Burtynsky's large-scale colour photographs, which are taken with large format field cameras, explore the way that nature has been transformed through industrial work and manufacturing--eg., railway cutting, mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles and the oil industry.
Burtynsky's toxic sublime work lacks the raw anger and the muckraking impulse of the documentary photographer, as it recognises a strange beauty in the destruction of nature. It has its roots in the Romantics' realization that the coming industrial revolution threatened a pristine nature.
Edward Burtynsky, Landscape Study #4, Ontario, 1981, colour photograph
The early landscape work in the 1980s has largely been forgotten. It is comprised of modest studies of pristine landscapes in Canada and the United States and it lead to a desire to probe much deeper, into the nature and visual result of impact of human beings on the planet.
Edward Burtynsky, Landscape Study #7, West Virginia, 1985, colour photograph
These modest studies are something that I can do around the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia now that my 8x10 camera is operational.
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