Work Experience:
1985 - present - Established Toronto Image Works, a darkroom rental facility, custom lab, digital imaging centre and new media computer training centre.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005
Manufactured Landscapes (includes 24 new China images), Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Manufactured Landscapes, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Photowork, The Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Manufactured Landscapes, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Art, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Entropia, Fundacion Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Bilbao, Spain
Edward Burtynsky, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Burtynsky — China, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
Burtynsky — China, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (touring exhibition)
Burtynsky — China, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Burtynsky — China, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Burtynsky — China, Flowers Gallery, London, England
2003
"Landmarks" Oakville Galleries, Centennial Square, Oakville, Ontario
"Edward Burtynsky: Mid-Career Retrospective" The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Touring to the following locations: Finnish Museum of Photography at Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California
"Before the Flood" Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California (cat)
"Before the Flood" Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (cat)
"Before the Flood" Flowers Gallery, London (cat)
2002
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
The Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, Alberta
Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
"Edward Burtynsky" - Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
"Eight Large Photographs" - Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
"Shipbreaking II" - Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Rajasthan New Work" - Flowers Central, London
"Rock of Ages: Photographs by Edward Burtynsky" - Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois (cat)
1999
"In the Wake of Progress"- Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Ed Burtynsky"- Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA.
1998
"Urban Mines" - Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
"Urban Mines and Tailings" - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
"In the Wake of Progress: Quarries, Tailings & Urban Mines" -Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, Alberta
1996
"Tailings" - Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1995
"Quarries" - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, New York
1994
"The Carrara Marble Quarries" - Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (cat)
1993
"The Stone Quarries" - Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005
Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Disaster Topographics, Toronto Photographer's Workshop, Toronto, Ontario
Subjective Distance, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Hot Mush and Cold North, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2004
Houston Fotofest, Houston, TX
2003
Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands
"Industry and Entropy" Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania (cat)
2002-2003
"Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection" Norsk Museum for Fotografi - Preus Fotomuseum, Horten, Norway; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
2001
Flowers Gallery, London, England
Detourism, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Best of the Season: Selected Works from the 2000-2001 Manhattan Gallery Season,
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
This is North America / Is This North America?, Fine Arts Center Galleries,
University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Site /Seeing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
1998
"On the Nature of Landscape" - Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum
"Before the Land, Behind the Camera"-Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1997
"Work, Workers, Works: Rearranging the Land" - Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia
"The Big Picture" -Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
"Land Used" - curated by Laurel Bradley, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, Minnesota
1996
"Before the Land Behind the Camera" - Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
1994
"Burtynsky/Maynard" - Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
1993
"Embodied Spaces" - Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Quebec (cat)
1992
"Beau: A Reflection on Beauty of Nature in Photography" - Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario (cat)
1991
"Tainted Prospects: Photographers and the Compromised Environment" - Co-curated by John Pfahl and Sandra Olsen, Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, New York (cat)
1987
"Focus '87" - Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
1985
"In the Keeping Room" - Marcus Schubert/Edward Burtynsky, Presentation House, Vancouver, British Columbia
1983
"Photo Perspectives" - National juried exhibition, Presentation House, Vancouver, British Columbia
1982
"Transitions - The Landscape" - Produced and toured by The National Film Board (now CMCP)
Exhibition tour:
o The Photo Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario - 1982
o Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba - 1982
o The Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto, Ontario - 1983
o The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, S. California - 1983
Grants
1990 Canada Council "B" Grant
1985 Ontario Arts Council Framing Grant
1984 Canada Council "B" Grant
Ontario Arts Council "B" Grant
1983 Canada Council Short Term Grant
Purchase Award - Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C.
1982 Canada Council Short Term Grant
Awards and Honors
2004
Flying Elephants Foundation Fellowship - inaugural award (annual) given to individuals from around the world who are working to benefit the environment through the arts and sciences. TED Prize - inaugural (annual) Monterey, California (http://www.ted.com/tedprize/index.cfm)
The Rencontres d'Arles Outreach Award 2004: "for a photographer or an artist making use of photography whose work has increased dialogue and exchange in the interests of humanity" - Arles, France
Roloff Beny Book Award - "Before the Flood"
Applied Arts Magazine - Photographic Book Award - "Before the Flood"
2003
Governor General of Canada Delegate - Circumpolar State Visit to Finland and Iceland
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts - Academician's Honours
2002
National Magazine Awards Foundation - Photojournalism Silver Award
2001
Now Magazine Reader's Poll Award - "Best of Toronto: Photographer"
Lectures
2004
Idea City - Toronto
Natural City Symposion - University of Toronto
Commissions
2005
Ars Electronica Festival - To provide visuals with live orchestra set to Philip Glass' 1992 work entitled "Low Symphony" - Between the Lines program, Brucknerhaus Theatre, Linz, Austria
1999/2000 Photographing the works of Baroque architecture of Borromini in Rome for a book to be published by the Yale University Press and authored by Joseph Connors.
1991
"Mosaica", a one year commissioned photographic essay on the integration of the Ukrainian culture with Canadian culture for The Grant McEwan Centre, Edmonton, Alberta.
1989
A corporate commission for a photographic essay on the nickel mines of Thompson Lake Manitoba for INCO Canada.
1986
"Money Matters, A Critical History of Bank Architecture", a four year commission to photograph banks in Canada and the United States of America for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Parnassus Foundation.
2005
Sansom, Anna, "The Beauty of Progress: Edward Burtynsky's widescreen Industrial Visions," November, Spoon, U.K.
Meyers, William, "An Artist in Awe of His Surroundings," October 13, New York Sun, Arts & Letters, p. 13
"Entropia," Fundacion Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Bilbao, Spain, October (cat)
Baker, Kenneth, "As Nature Bleeds, Edward Burtynsky get the Big Picture," July 6, San Francisco Chronicle
Knight, Christopher, "His Aim is True," May 25, Los Angeles Times
Dixon, guy, "A Warning From the Wastelands," April 7, Globe and Mail, Review R1 - R3
Goddard, Peter, "Terror in Progress,", October 1, Toronto Star
Harris, Jeff, "The Reinvention of China," February 24, Maclean's, p.34 - 37
Roderick, Daffyd, "Made in Canada: Frame of Work" September 19, Arts & Culture, Time (Canadian Edition)
Milroy, Sarah, "Burtynsky's view of China Rising," October 15, Globe and Mail, Review, R5
Burtynsky, Edward, "BURTYNSKY - CHINA," Published by Steidl, Germany, October, 148 Pages, 96 Colour Plates, 3 Essays, Hardcover, ISBN - 3-86521-130-5
2004
Regimbald, Manon, "Les Ruines Des Burtynsky," November-December, Spirale, p. 41
Dault, Gary Michael, "The Eleventh Hour in Photography," Summer, Canadian Art, Vol. 20 - No. 1, p. 56
Fishman, Ted, "The Chinese Century," July 4, New York Times, P. 24
Milroy, Sarah, "On the Eve of Destruction," May 31, Globe and Mail, R-6
Stacey, Robert, "Surreal Photos Expose the Magic," May, Sustain Magazine, p. 47
Kuipers, Dean, "Guru of Wise Use," May, Playboy, p. 51
Goldberg, Vicki, "The Emerald Megacities of Southeast Asia," April 11, New York Times
Hannon, Gerald, "The Eyes of Edward Burtynsky," February, Toronto Life, p. 81
Whyte, Murray, "Beautiful Mines," February, ARTnews, p.70
Browne, Kevin, "It isn't a Snap," February 7, National Post
Whyte, Murray, "Adding up the price that Nature Pays," January, New York Times
Goddard, Peter, "Landscapes Wrenching Ruins," January, Toronto Star, G-4
2003
Richler, Noah, "This Overheating World: The Evidence of Man," Autumn, Granta
Dawson, Jessica, "Unnatural Wonders," August 7, Washington Post
Whyte, Murray, "Mapping the High Cost of Progress," June 28, Toronto Star, F-4
Burnett, Craig, "Manufactured Landscapes: Burtynsky Delivers," Summer, Modern Painters, p. 137
Darwent, Charles, "Unnatural Beauty," May 11, The Independent, p.23
Youngs, Christopher, "Industry and Entropy," March/April, Albright Center for the Arts (Cat.)
Fulford, Robert, "Industrial Light and Magic," March 11, National Post
Dean, Katherine, "Sublime Traces," February 3, McLean's Magazine, p. 42
2002
Leffingwell, Edward, "Reviews: Edward Burtynsky at Charles Cowles," June, Art In America, p. 129
Douglas, Sarah, "Reviews: New York, Edward Burtynsky Charles Cowles," May/June, Flash Art, p. 134
May 16-22, Now Magazine, p. 61
Fulford, Robert, "Art Around Every Corner," May 9, The National Post, p. AL 3
Williams, Gregory, "Reviews: Edward Burtynsky Charles Cowles Gallery," May, ArtForum, p. 181-2
May: Elm Street Magazine, p. 20
May: Harper's Magazine, p. 15
Bowness, Gordon, "The Giants," April, Report On Business Magazine, p. 56-64
Callahan, Sean, "Multiple Viewpoints," Smithsonian Magazine, April.
"Real Art Ways, Acquiring Taste," 23 February- 30 June, p. 85
Loke, Margarett, "Art in Review: Edward Burtynsky," The New York Times, February 22, p. E40.
Chinen, Nate, "Edward Burtynsky," digitalcity.com New York, February
Dannatt, Adrian, "New York: Contemporary dealer shows: Edward Burtynsky - Charles Cowles," The Art Newspaper, What's On, February, p. 3.
Ruiz, Cristina, "Rest of the world: Commercial galleries: Edward Burtynsky, Shipbreaking; Jane Hinton, Structures: new photographs - Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto," The Art Newspaper, What's On, February, p. 27.
"Goings On About Town: Photography: Edward Burtynsky," The New Yorker, February 11, p. 13, 16.
"Goings On About Town: Photography: Edward Burtynsky," The New Yorker, January 28, p. 24.
2001
Donegan, Rosemary, "Awesome Ambiguity: Edward Burtynsky's Industrial Landscape," Prefix Photo 3, p. 9-23
Baker, Kenneth, "Edward Burtynsky," ARTnews, May.
Richler, Noah, "Residual Landscapes," Saturdy Night Magazine, May 19, p. 25-29
Mays, John Bentley. "A Melancholy Beauty: Edward Burtynsky's ship-breaking images are revealing in their humanity," The National Post, April 25.
Torosian, Michael, Residual Landscapes: Studies of Industrial Transfiguration, Lumiere Press.
Mayer, Marc, "A Dystopian Sublime: Edward Burtynsky's Grand Tour," Edward Burtynsky (cat).
2000
Avenue, "Industrial Magic: A Look At the Art of Edward Burtynsky" The National Post, June 14
Dault, Gary Michael, "Burtynsky's refined images offer aestheic truth" The Globe and Mail, June 3
Crumer, Jason, "Artist Showcase: Edward Burtynsky" Hemispheres, May 2000, p. 80-84
The Hamson Interview, "Firing up the Power Plant" The Globe and Mail, January 12
1999
Murray, Joan, Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, Dundurn Press
Hanna, Deirdre, "Ed Burtynsky ignites industrial passions" Now Magazine, October 28-November 3
Dean, Catherine, "Hot Wheels" The National Post, November 16
September: Harper's Magazine, p. 23
Luppino, Tony, "Mining for art in the nickel belt" The Globe and Mail, August 4
1998
Long, Andrew, "Landscapes in Flux", Art & Antiques, December 1998
Falk, Dan, "Mining modern industry for art gems," The Globe and Mail, May 5
1997
Pedersen, Andy, "Disfigured Landscapes," The Daily News, November 1
October: Harper's Magazine, p. 15
1996
Rhodes, Richard, "Tailings", Canadian Art, vol. 13, number 3, Fall issue
1994
Burtynsky, Edward, Quarries, essay by Michael Mitchell (cat)
Hume, Christopher, "Carrara's beauty and banality," The Toronto Star, February 24
Bentley Mays, John, "Review in Brief," The Globe and Mail, March 22
Hanna, Dierdre, "Ed Burtynsky's quarry photos uncover troubling splendour" Now Magazine, March 31- April 6
1992
Matarozzo, Sharon, "Breaking Ground", Common Ground, issue 46, Jan/Feb
Hume, Christopher, "Quarries" The Toronto Star, February 24
1992
Langford, Martha, Beau , Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Pouliot, J. Marc Cote, Faces of Canada, Urban Photographic Projects Inc.
Hume, Christopher, "New photo museum puts focus on beauty," The Toronto Star, May 9
Rafelman, Rachel, "Adjustments in focus," The Globe and Mail, April 11
1991
HBR Photo File, "From Monoliths to Malls: The Changing Face of Banks", Harvard Business Review, May-June.
Pfahl, John and Olsen, Sandra, Tainted Prospects: Photographers and the Compromised Environment, Castellani Art Museum (cat)
Godfrey, Stephen, "The mini and the mighty," The Globe and Mail, January 2
1990
Wagg, Susan, Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture, McGraw-Hill
Barbour, David, The Landscape, McMichael Art Collection (cat)
Arthur, Alan, "A Major Exhibition Celebrates Bank Architecture", Canadian Photographer, Issue One, Spring
Simpson, Rose, "Portfolio, Edward Burtynsky", Photosource, July/August
Wingham, Judy, "Fine Art Photography in Canada", Viewfinder, November
Harris, David, Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture, (cat) Canadian Centre for Architecture
Hume, Christopher, "New Bolley paintings colored in depressing shade of blue," The Toronto Star, May 11
Smellie, Jan, "Eight Canadian landscapers in premiere event at McMichael," The Enterprise, September 24
1989
Ministerstvo Kultury CSR, ed. Mrázková, Daniela, 150 Years of Photography, Prague, 1989, Videopress
Smith, Whitney, Journal of Wild Culture, (back cover), Spring Issue
Creighton, Christopher, "The focus is on 150 years of photography," Cobourg Daily Star, March 3
1988
Burtynsky, Edward, Breaking Ground, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (cat)
Hume, Christopher, "Environmental art breaks artistic ground," The Toronto Star, July 8
1984
Langford, Martha, Contemporary Canadian Photography, Hurtig Publishers Ltd.
Issue 117 Features:
INTERVIEWS
Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky, renowned for his large-scale photographs of industrial landscapes and most recently, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, talks with BC about his extensive bodies of work in which he attempts to "…raise our consciousness about how we're collectively changing the landscape."
This issue also features an interview with New York-based video artist Mika Rottenberg. Meeka Walsh writes of Rottenberg's work, "The videos have elements that are unnerving and disturbing in the situations they present, but they also hold images of unexpected beauty."
ARTICLES
Daniel Baird contributes an article on "The Last Newspaper," an exhibition at the New Museum in NY, which looks at the role of the newspap...
Les performances historiques font actuellement l’objet de différentes formes de réactualisation : mises en exposition, appropriations, remédiatisations et reenactments. Ces pratiques, qui soulèvent un ensemble de questions sur le statut de la documentation de performances (photos, vidéos et films notamment) et sur leurs interprétations, sont abordées dans CV86 à l’aide de multiples exemples récents.
David Tomas, commissaire de l’exposition Tim Clark : Reading the Limits, introduit les stratégies qu’il a privilégiées pour la mise en place des oeuvres alors que Mario Côté, réalisateur des Saisons Sullivan, présente son projet de recréation de Danse dans la neige avec Franç...
View Photography Magazine saute à pieds joints dans la mare, fier de vous présenter son premier dossier thématique ! Pour ce sujet primordial, photographes, maisons d’éditions, grandes agences photo, tous se sont mouillés. L’eau est un sujet riche, infini, qui fascine, provoque de grands mouvements, soulève de nombreuses questions qui, pour l’occasion, rassemblent plus qu’elles ne divisent… L’eau coule ici librement, d’un regard à l’autre, abordée collectivement et sans limite aucune, ni géographique, ni formelle. Ce dossier a été rendu possible grâce aux photographes, à leur témoignage, aux textes – cartes blanches rédactionnelles – proposés pour acco...
La nature transformée par l'industrie est un thème prédominant dans mon travail. Ces images sont des métaphores du dilemme de notre existence moderne ; elles tentent d'établir un dialogue entre attraction et répulsion, séduction et crainte. Pour moi, ces images agissent comme des miroirs de notre époque. "
Edward Burtynsky
Commander le DVD : http://eddistribution.com/videos.php?id_video=45...
Prix Pictet Honorary President Kofi Annan will present the award to the winner of the Prix Pictet 2009 at the Passage de Retz gallery in Paris on 22 October. This is the second year running that the former Secretary-General of the United Nations has agreed to bestow the prize. Speaking at the 2008 award ceremony Kofi Annan said “Each artist has addressed the environmental and social challenges we face in their own personal way. The result is a series of powerful images, which seek to confront us with the scale of the threat we face, and to inspire governments, business, - and all of us as individuals -to step up to the challenge and support change for a sustainable world..”...
Prix de la photographie sur le développement durable, d’une valeur de 50 000 livres
Les plus grands photographes du globe participent au premier concours mondial de photographie sur le développement durable
Président d’honneur: Kofi Annan
Membres du Jury : Francis Hodgson (Président), Peter Aspden, Régis Durand, Leo
Johnson, Abbas Kiarostami, Richard Misrach et Loa Haagen Pictet Paris, le 16 Juillet, 2008. Fleuves couleur de sang, inondations, tempêtes de sable dans
les déserts créés par la main de l'homme... autant d’images préoccupantes sélectionnées pour le Prix Pictet, premier prix international de la photographie orienté vers le développement durable, avec pour sa premi&egr...
Quatre ans de travail, neuf pays, la mobilisation d’un grand nombre de personnes et de moyens, le tout, au service de cinq séries de clichés : Détresse, Maitrise, Agriculture, Aquaculture, Front d’eau et Source. Edward Burtynsky a voyagé au Mexique, en Colombie-Britannique, à travers les Etats-Unis, l’Inde, la Chine, l’Espagne, les Pays-Bas, le Royaume-Uni et l’Islande pour donner forme à ce témoignage, cet état des lieux liquide de la planète : Water. Il offre aux lecteurs « Quelques-unes des photographies les plus poétiques et les plus abstraites de toute ma carrière », dit-il.
L’idée d’un travail sur l’eau débute en 2007 en Australie «&n...
Oil as a visual theme
The effect of Burtynsky's work is astounding. After more than a century of extracting oil from the planet, our eyes are being opened. Perhaps the fact that oil itself is something rarely seen has led to a lack of awareness about it. Oil does not make up part of the earth's surface and generally remains alien to our everyday landscape. As a relatively invisible phenomenon, oil is generally a non-photographic subject, until the artist focuses his attention upon it. What Burtynsky photographs is the industry, technology and culture of oil: from the drilling sites at sea and on land, to the pipelines and network of road systems that serve distribution, to vehicles and the people who use them. By doing so he provides a great deal of visual information on a subject that is often, from an aesthetic point ...
Now in its second year, the Prix Pictet, awarded by the Swiss Private Bank Pictet & Cie, aims to use photography to educate audiences worldwide about issues related to climate change. This is the first photographic award on the topic of sustainability, harnessing art’s unique compelling power for the benefit of our precious planet. The theme for this year is Earth, encompassing the planet, the ground beneath our feet, and the ways in which mankind negatively affects the landscape, whether through broken abandoned cities, strip mining, waste dumps or other forms of exploitation. It also refers to the aftermath of natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes. The shortlist of the nominees (Darren Almond, Christopher Anderson, Sammy Baloji, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Nad...
Over a twenty-five year career exploring the landscape as transformed by industry, the celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has accumulated a body of work on large scale quarries around the world. Including Canada, Italy, China, Spain, Portugal, India and America these thought provoking studies of sites that are created as we dig into the earth for material in order to build our cities, urge us to consider how we as viewers are simultaneously attracted yet repulsed by these landscapes – somewhere a building is created while a landscape is destroyed.
176 pages, 80 colour plates
38.1 cm x 30.4 cm
STEIDL Photography International
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Edward Burtynsky's imagery explores the intricate link between industry and nature, combining the raw elements of mining, quarrying, shipping, oil production, and recycling into eloquent, highly expressive visions that find beauty and humanity in the most unlikely places. These images are metaphors for the dilemma of our modern existence: we are drawn by desire--the desire to live well and in comfort--yet we all know that the world is suffering to meet those demands. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into uneasy contradiction and feeds the dialogue in Burtynsky's images between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. Burtysnky's latest body of work gives visual form to the industrial and urban transformation of China, a place w...
Auction 1068: Photography
Friday, 3 June 2016 2pm
Highlight of this sale is a group of vintage prints by Albert Renger-Patzsch, which includes his famous image "Natterkopf" from 1925. The exceptional work was published in 1928 in his photo book "Die Welt ist schön" (lot 20, €15,000–20,000). The piece was made together with two other animal portraits at Dresden Zoo (lots 18/19, each est. €5,000-6,000) and due to its fascinatingly abstract graphic qualities it has become one of Renger-Patzsch’s most famous works. "Natterkopf" will be coming under the hammer for the first time, together with a selection of other plant, object and landscape photographs by the artist.
A further top lot is an early 1920s vintage print of Karl Blossfeldt’s "Salvia Argent...
Vente exceptionnelle chez Sotheby à Paris !
Plusieurs clichés uniques seront vendus pour la première fois comme ceux d'Andreas Gursky et d'Edward Burtynsky.
Du 19e siècle ou plus contemporains, américains ou français, du monde du design ou d'avant-garde, autant d'artistes qui pourront s'installer chez vous, de Horst P. Horst, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, William Klein à Otto Steinert, Adolf de Meyer, Florence Henri et Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Voici une liste non exhaustive des photographes représentés
- 19e siècle : Edouard-Denis Baldus, Charles Nègre
- 20e siècle, Avant-garde : Hannah Höch, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, August Sander, Man Ray, Hans Bellmer
- Photographes humainiste frança...
New York - Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the highlights of the forthcoming Photographs sale on Saturday 9 April 2011, to be held at its Park Avenue location.
“We are looking forward to bringing the Photographs preview to our flagship space at 57 Street and Park Avenue. The uptown location will be a fresh setting to showcase our exhibition, comprised of a diverse selection of classic and contemporary photographs to fulfill the needs of our international clientele.” Vanessa Kramer, Worldwide Director of Photographs.
Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #278, 1993, estimated at $200,000-$300,000, exemplifying the famed photographer’s poignant critiques of the fashion industry, juxtaposed by one of the most revered images i...
Sous le thème "Influencer la trajectoire", la troisième édition des Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie se tiendra du 6 juillet au 10 septembre 2012.
Plus de 30 expositions de photographes d'ici et d'ailleurs, consacrés ou émergents, auront lieu dans 13 municipalités de la péninsule gaspésienne.
À l’occasion des Rencontres, le tour de la Gaspésie se veut un voyage autour du monde. « Notre volonté est d'habiter et d'utiliser le vaste territoire gaspésien, aux paysages grandioses et à l'accueil légendaire, en défendant différentes écritures photographiques et en favorisant la rencontre entre le public et la cr&eacu...
Tout au long du mois de Mai à Toronto au Canada, le Festival Scotiabank CONTACT présente dans 200 lieux de la ville des expositions, installations publiques, projections, films, conférences et stages à environ un million de visiteurs. Nous vous présentons ci-dessous le contenu de ce festival, qui présente le meilleur de la photographie contemporaine et dont l'édition 2011 est intitulée Figure & Ground, explorant «les tensions mouvantes entre l'humanité et la nature». Pour en savoir plus : http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/
«Focusing on our relationship to the environment, CONTACT 2011: Figure & Ground looks at how photographic images alter perception, inform knowledge, and uncover meaning. From classical portraits of t...
Press release
New York – Two exhibitions of work by renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky will be on view from November 3 – December 31, 2016, at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery and Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Burtynsky, whose incisive work explores the dilemmas at the heart of our globalized world, is known for portraying the visible outcomes of humankind’s impact on the environment. The exhibitions coincide with the publication of two new books: Salt Pans (Steidl, September 2016) and Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements (Thames & Hudson, November 2016).
At Howard Greenberg Gallery, new large-scale photographs from Burtynsky’s 2016 Salt Pans series, which debuted at Art Basel, will be shown in the main space. The work was made in India at a barren, salt-producing area in Gujara...
La programmation 2015 du Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire fera dialoguer avec l’esprit du lieu une quinzaine de nouveaux artistes, plasticiens et photographes. 2015 marquera la deuxième phase de l’œuvre du grand artiste mexicain Gabriel Orozco, commande spéciale de la Région Centre-Val de Loire, avec de nouvelles et singulières “fleurs fantômes” en grand format, inspirées des tapisseries anciennes des chambres abandonnées de longue date, dans les appartements princiers du Château.
Les arbres et leurs mystères seront, par ailleurs, au cœur de la programmation du Centre d’Arts et de Nature de Chaumont-sur-Loire, avec l’exceptionnel “arbre fossilisé” du grand artiste brésilien Tunga, magni...
Man’s impact on the natural landscape takes the form of construction, destruction and intervention in the photographic imagery of An Artificial Wilderness. The title borrows a phrase from the W. H. Auden poem The Shield of Achilles (1952), referring to modern society’s passive stance toward the decline of human values, and its disregard for the physical world. Exemplifying this idea at its most extreme, Edward Burtynsky captures the world’s largest accumulation of discarded rubber tires. Lewis Baltz confronts an uncommon, mundane subject—an urban parking lot—and finds beauty. Rosemary Laing documents a seamlessly laid, floral wall-to-wall carpet in a eucalyptus forest to symbolize the domestication of the natural environment. In diverse works dating from the 1960s to the present, and feat...
NOMA –> CAC presents Edward Burtynsky: Water, the world premiere of the latest body of work by internationally renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky. The exhibition includes over 50 large-scale color photographs that form a global portrait of humanity’s relationship to water. Burtynsky’s images address several facets of the world’s vital resource, exploring the source, collection, control, displacement, and depletion of water. The exhibition will be on display in the second floor Lupin Foundation Gallery of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC).
Edward Burtynsky (born 1955, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) has long been recognized for his ability to combine vast and serious subject matter with a rigorous, formal approach to picture making. The results are images that are part abstraction, ...
Phillips et la banque Degroof ont le grand plaisir d’annoncer une exposition d’une sélection d’œuvres de la collection privée de Florence et Damien Bachelot en collaboration avec le musée Nicéphore-Niépce de Chalon-sur-Saône. L’exposition sera présentée dans les nouveaux locaux de Phillips à l’occasion de Paris Photo.
Damien Bachelot a constitué, depuis le début des années 2000, deux collections : l’une pour Aforge Degroof Finance, dont il est le président fondateur, et l’autre, privée, avec son épouse Florence. Récemment, les deux collections ont été rassemblées dans une société familiale : Art Pradier. Ces collections, d&...
The gallery OstLicht is located on the former campus of the Anker Bread Factory, i.e. at a location that was used industrially for a long time, its original use having changed over the past years.
With its exhibit Industrie (Industry), OstLicht commemorates the history of its own location, offering an examination of aspects of industrial production by presenting fifteen contemporary artistic positions ready to be explored.
Usually, the methods of industrial production remain invisible – for those who do not work there, factories are inaccessible places. The production of goods has also vanished from the public perception because numerous factories in Austria have been closed during the past decades, manufacturing having been outsourced to other countries. Former industrial compounds decay or are rededi...
For the first time in the history of Manifesta, the biennial will not only present an international, industry-leading selection of contemporary art. The exhibition will also consist of an impressive collection of historical works and will display the rich mining heritage in a surprising and innovative way to both local and international audiences.
Curator Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico City) developed the concept for Manifesta 9, addressing the social and societal impact of the recent past in Limburg. The exhibition The Deep of the Modern will be presented as a triptych. For the first section, 35 international contemporary artists are invited to create new work, paying heed to regional context, linking the local theme with global issues. The art historical section provides an overview of works of art from the 1...
The large scale colour photographs by Burtynsky document the many facets of nature like they are transformed by human industry. Industrial processes such as shipbuilding (in China) and shipbreaking (in Bangladesh) are presented as highly expressive visions where beauty is found in the most unlikely of places.
The images by Burtynsky (born 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario) are metaphors of the dilemma of our modern existence. We are drawn by the desire for prosperity and a good comfortable life, yet we all know that the world suffers to meet those demands. Our dependence on nature to provide us with the materials for our consumption, in contrast to our concern for the health of our planet, sets us into the uneasy contradiction that feeds the dialogue in the images by Burtynsky between attraction and repulsion, sedu...
The large scale colour photographs by Burtynsky document the many facets of nature like they are transformed by human industry. Industrial processes such as shipbuilding (in China) and shipbreaking (in Bangladesh) are presented as highly expressive visions where beauty is found in the most unlikely of places.
The images by Burtynsky (born 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario) are metaphors of the dilemma of our modern existence. We are drawn by the desire for prosperity and a good comfortable life, yet we all know that the world suffers to meet those demands. Our dependence on nature to provide us with the materials for our consumption, in contrast to our concern for the health of our planet, sets us into the uneasy contradiction that feeds the dialogue in the images by Burtynsky between attraction and repulsion, sedu...
In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci had drawn up a great many scientific and engineering proposals, most of which had never been actualized until centuries later. In retrospect, we attribute the beginnings of many modern day inventions, from the helicopter and submarine to the machine gun, to da Vinci’s engineering and scientific genius. But if we took ourselves back to times previous to the actual creation of these machines, what we have are beautiful drawings of fantastical and experimental ideas; the wild imaginations of scientific possibilities put to paper by the masterful hand of a great artist. Whether or not these objects were ever realized, it is the artistic application of his sense of wonder and the depth of his curiosity that we continue to be awed by.
This exhibition is inspired by the inter...
Die Galerie Stefan Röpke is pleased to present its third exhibition of large-format photographs by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky at the gallery, on view April 13 to June 4, 2011.
As with his previous bodies of work, Burtynsky continues to investigate and document man's "footprint" as he changes the global landscape in his quest for and extraction of the world's natural resources. For this exhibition, the artist bridges his focus on Oil that had been the subject matter of his last monograph published by Steidl, to Water. Focusing specifically on the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Burtynksy creates an important and influential body of photographic work, vividly presenting the risks and the high price we pay for our dependency on oil as our resources from the oceans are affected as a re...
The Fondazione FORMA per la Fotografia, is Milan’s only permanent space dedicated exclusively to photography. The gallery will be showing a selection from the portfolios shortlisted for the 2009 prize, on the theme of Earth, together with a selection of works produced by Ed Kashi for the Earth Commission. The Prix Pictet ‘Earth’ exhibition has so far visited the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai, the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Gallery of Photography in Dublin, the Moscow House of Photography, and Caprice Horn Gallery in Berlin. Earlier this summer the Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne staged a special showcase exhibition featuring the work of four laureates of the Prix Pictet - Benoit Aquin, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi and Munem Wasif. Later in th...
The Prix Pictet is the world’s first prize dedicated to photography. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate powerful messages of global environmental significance. This year the theme is ‘Earth’. The exhibition includes work by the twelve international photographers shortlisted for the 2009 prize:
Food riots. Loss of forest cover. Desertification. The ecosystems we depend on appear to face resource demands already beyond their capacity. As governments try urgently to stimulate growth, a central question remains - can the earth’s complex living systems sustain the future consumption patterns of another three billion people in the world’s population by 2050? The submissions speak of the harmful and often irreversible effects of exploiting the earth&rs...
Burtynsky's large scale colour photographs document the many facets of nature as they are transformed by human industry. Industrial processes such as gold- and silvermining are presented as highly expressive visions where beauty is found in the most unlikely of places.
The images by Burtynsky (born 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario) are metaphors of the dilemma of our modern existence. We are drawn by the desire for prosperity and a good comfortable life, yet we all know that the world suffers to meet those demands. Our dependence on nature to provide us with the materials for our consumption, in contrast to our concern for the health of our planet, sets us into the uneasy contradiction that feeds the dialogue in Burtynsky's images between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. This contradiction is absolutely in...
Is there beauty in the marks that people make on the land? Renowned Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky seeks the answer.
While Edward Burtynsky is one of the world's leading contemporary landscape photographers, the focus of his work is not the natural landscape but, in his words, "manufactured landscapes". His photographic work has examined quarries, mine sites, industrial landscapes, oilfields and industrial sites around the world.
This series of images taken in the Eastern Goldfields and the Pilbara of Western Australia, continues Burtynsky's examination of natural landscapes modified by the quest of the raw materials required by our modern society. However, Burtynsky's pursuit is also to find the beauty left behind....
Oil explores one of the most important subjects of our time by one of the most respected and recognized contemporary photographers in the world. Edward Burtynsky has travelled internationally to chronicle the production, distribution, and use of this critical fuel. In addition to revealing the rarely-seen mechanics of its manufacture, Burtynsky photographs the effects of oil on our lives, depicting landscapes altered by its extraction from the earth and by the cities and suburban sprawl generated around its use. He also addresses the coming "end of oil", as we confront its rising cost and dwindling availability....
This touring exhibition surveys a decade of photographic imagery exploring the subject of oil by artist Edward Burtynsky. The Canadian photographer has traveled internationally to chronicle the production, distribution, and use of this critical fuel. In addition to revealing the rarely-seen mechanics of its manufacture, Burtynksy photographs the effects of oil on our lives, depicting landscapes altered by its extraction from the earth and by the cities and suburban sprawl generated around its use. He also addresses the coming "end of oil," as we confront its rising cost and dwindling availability. This exhibition, premiering in the capital city of the United States in Fall 2009, represents a look at one of the most important subjects of our time by one of the most respected and recognized contemporary photograp...
Burtynsky / OIL
With his exhibition and publication on oil, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has produced a masterpiece. On the basis of monumental and highly detailed color photographs about oil, its extraction and consumption, which Burtynsky has been making since 1997, he reveals the connection between our use of oil and the effect this has on the landscape. Within this context the relationship between the culture of oil consumption and the immense infrastructure that it requires is also firmly established. Ultimately Burtynsky's photographs of the waste left behind by this industry inspires us to imagine how the world might look when this fossil fuel is depleted.
Oil as a visual theme
The effect of Burtynsky's work is astounding. After more than a century of extracting oil from the planet, our eyes are b...
On 22 October at the Passage de Retz gallery in Paris Kofi Annan, Honorary President of the Prix Pictet, will announce the winner of this year’s award. Planning for the exhibition of work by the Prix Pictet Shortlist 2009 is complete and it is clear that that the Jury face a considerable challenge when they sit down to consider this group of images that range from the painterly to the documentary and all points in between – often within a single submission. The power of the shortlisted images was summed up by Stephen Barber when he introduced them at the Rencontres d’Arles. “We are all of us, all too familiar with the great issues of sustainability – climate change, environmental degradation, deforestation – yet how many of us have experienced personally the devastating consequences de...
Kofi Annan, Président honoraire du Prix Pictet, annoncera le lauréat de l'édition 2009 le jeudi 22 Octobre au Passage de Retz. L'exposition des photographes nominés pour le Prix Pictet 2009 est prête et il apparaît clairement que les jurés ont relevé un défi de taille lorsqu'ils ont dû sélectionner ces images allant du pictural ou documentaire, souvent au sein d'un même dossier. La force des images choisies est bien résumée par Stephen Barber lorsqu'il les présenta en juillet dernier aux Rencontres d’Arles. “Nous sommes tous familiers des graves problèmes liés au développement durable - le changement climatique, la dégradation de l'environnement, la déforestation - mais malgr...
HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER opens with "Edward Burtynsky: Oil". The exhibition runs from October 1 until November 28, 2009 with an artist's reception on Tuesday, October 6th from 6 to 8 p.m. "Oil" consists of a series of large format color images made over the last 12 years. Burtynsky's obsession with oil began in 1997, when he identified oil as a key building block of the last century - politically, economically and socially - on a global scale. He has tracked this controversial, valuable and increasingly scarce resource from extraction to production to consumption. His obsession with oil has taken him from oil fields to expressways, from Western Canada to Los Angeles to the Middle East.
The New York exhibition at HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER is presented in conjunction with the publication and release of the...
"Every mystery seems absurd, and yet nothing is profound, whether in life or art or state, without mystery."
- David Friedrich Strauss
Galerie Stefan Roepke presents The Mystery Behind The Image at Art Cologne 2009 in Booth A-51/Hall 11.2, an exhibition of works by gallery artists that invite the viewer to go beyond their initial impressions and to investigate deeper to discover the subtlety and profundity within them.
Among the artists that will be included are Edward Burtynsky, Aleksandar Duravcevic, Jason Gringler, Sharon Harper, Robert Mapplethorpe, Max Neumann, Bernardí Roig and Keisuke Shirota.
We also invite you to view the concurrent exhibition at the gallery, "restless", a solo show of new works by Aleksandar Duravcevic.
We look forward to welcoming you to this year's ed...
Galerie Stefan Roepke presents the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's second solo exhibition in Germany with selected works from the Australia series. Burtynsky's large scale colour photographs document the many facets of nature as they are transformed by human industry. Industrial processes such as gold- and silver mining are presented as highly expressive visions where beauty is found in the most unlikely of places.
The images by Burtynsky (born 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario) are metaphors of the dilemma of our modern existence. We are drawn by the desire for prosperity and a good comfortable life, yet we all know that the world suffers to meet those demands. Our dependence on nature to provide us with the materials for our consumption, in contrast to our concern for the health of our plane...
Delphine The Paris Beijing Photo Gallery is honored to exhibit world-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky from the 26th of October until the 10th of January.
Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada’s most respected photographers.
Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in his work. With his large format camera, Burtynsky captures the vast scale and minute details of monumental societal transformations. He brings environmental cause and effect to attention by highlighting the interaction between industry, construction and the natural environment.
From 2002 to 2005, the photographer explored China various industrial complexes and afforded us privileged glimpse on the vast social and economic transformation currently underway in China.
The gallery will present for the first time...
The Galería Arnés y Röpke is pleased to present a new solo exhibition with works from the Iberia Quarries series by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky.
Burtynsky's large scale colour photographs document the many facets of nature as they are transformed by human industry. Industrial processes are presented as highly expressive visions where beauty is found in the most unlikely of places.
The works from the Iberia Quarries series were photographed in Spain and Portugal in 2006 after Burtynsky realized photographs of Quarries in Canada, Italy, China, India and the United States over seventeen years.
Through masterful technique and often dizzying compositions, the artist presents his magnificent colour images as thought-provoking studies of those deconstructed territories that are created ...
Le Centre culturel canadien présente l'un des photographes les plus en vue de la scène artistique canadienne, Edward Burtynsky, dont l'œuvre a acquis en quelques années seulement une reconnaissance internationale à la mesure des enjeux géopolitiques ambitieux de son art.
Dans la même année, 2004, Burtynsky recevait le prestigieux TED Prize (Californie), le Prix Outreach des Rencontres internationales de la photographie à Arles ainsi que le Roloff Beny Book Prize (Ontario). Représenté par les plus grandes galeries européennes et nord-américaines, ses Å“uvres ont fait le tour du monde mais Manufactured Landscapes est néanmoins la première exposition personnelle de Burtynsky à Paris. Elle est constituée d'une sélection des Å“uvres ayant fait l'objet de l'exposition Manufactured Landscapes récemment prÃ...
Documenting China
Edward Burtynsky: The China Series
The large format color photography of internationally-acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is awe-inspiring. Exquisitely detailed and exactingly rendered, these large scale (5 x 6 feet) photographs document modern day Chinese industrialization. Drawing from his most recent trips to China, this exhibition includes Burtynsky's images of industrial factory workers, the attempts at recycling, and the abandoned manufacturing plants, showing the behind-the-scenes working of the world we hardly see, even though we come into contact with its results on a daily basis. The sheer numbers of seemingly identical workers and the mass quantities of discarded parts create images that are at once arresting and unsettling. Also included are images from the controversial T...