Artist of the Week: Edward Burtynsky

  

 Edward Burtynsky

I like this man's works. They show a huge amount of land to provide the landscape required in a landscape photo. I would categorize Burtynsky's works as large format landscape photos. His photos are quite different from Ansel Adams, perhaps the most famous landscape photographer, yet still reminiscent of them. Burtynsky used color, helicopters, and works in a much larger format, while Adams did not.

           

If someone reproduced Burtynsky's work, the process could be redone with moderate ease given access to a helicopter and large format camera.  I actually think that someone should do this in the exact same spots as Burtynsky, to see the effect that urbanism has to the landscape of the world. 

“We come from nature… There is an importance to having a certain reverence for what nature is because we are connected to it… If we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves.”

I agree with Burtynsky's point entirely. This seems like something that Ansel Adams would say, as he was also a great environmentalist. This also makes sense from Burtynsky's background, as he is from Canada, a vastly beautiful and untouched country. Canada has roughly 30% of the forests on Earth, so it makes sense that a man born and raised in such an environmental country is passionate about a subject like this.