Beauty in Industry
Beauty in Industry
Shortly
after I moved to Toronto for the first time, I walked into the digital
printing company while exploring the galleries of 80 Spadina. As
I walked in I was blown away by a photo that was better than all the
other art in the building. It turns out that it was a photo of a marble quarry in Carrara, Italy by Edward Burtynsky.
Years
later I went to an amazing photography exhibit where the artist had
captured the state-sponsored and orderly destruction of entire towns in
order to build the Three Gorges Dam in China. Turns out this was
also Burtynsky’s work.
Now Burtynsky’s back with a new work-a film exploring what he has seen and its impact on the world. Called Manufactured Landscapes, the film is out now and available on DVD.
Saturday, March 17, 2007