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Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
Author: Lori Pauli
Hard cover with dust jacket. As new condition. Signed copy.
Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky, curated by Lori Pauli, is a striking and richly illustrated catalogue documenting the first major retrospective of Burtynsky’s career—a project organized by the National Gallery of Canada and published in association with Yale University Press in 2003. The 160-page volume features sixty‑four large‑scale color photographs showcasing industrial sites around the world—mines, quarries, recycling yards, oil refineries, ship-breaking yards, and rail cuts—that reveal the dramatic transformation of natural terrain by human activity. Pauli’s editorial essay, along with additional contributions by Kenneth Baker, Mark Haworth‑Booth, and an interview with Burtynsky by Michael Torosian, contextualizes his visual exploration of "manufactured landscapes," inviting readers to reflect on the uneasy beauty of environmental disruption. With images rendered in a scale and clarity often described as sublime, the book presents both an aesthetic celebration and a contemplative critique of civilization’s footprint on earth (openlibrary.org, cielvariable.ca, ucca.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk, amazon.co.uk, worldofbooks.com, onlandscape.co.uk, books.google.com, erudit.org, mutualart.com).
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