Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements

Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements

<p><strong>The comprehensive monograph of one of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary art photographers featuring dozens of images never before published</strong></p><p>Edward Burtynsky (b. 1955) is one of a generation of photographers who seek to portray the visible outcomes of a globalized economy and humankind’s impact on environments around the world. He has achieved global recognition with his large-scale photographs and project-based monographs, such as <em>Quarries</em>, <em>Oil</em>, and <em>Water</em>, all of which have resulted in popular touring exhibitions and, in the case of <em>Water</em>, a feature-length documentary film entitled <em>Watermark</em>. However, while Burtynsky’s global standing is without question, no comprehensive retrospective of his career to date exists.</p><p>Edited and curated by William A. Ewing, <em>Edward Burtynsky: Essential Elements</em> provides an overview of Burtynsky’s work across four decades, including 140 photographs of both iconic and previously unpublished images. It conceives of Burtynsky’s oeuvre as five free-flowing sections that provide a sense of both his visual language and his exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of our globalized world. Each of the five sections is interleaved with a selection of texts from previous publications and articles on Burtynsky that work in concert with the photographs to provide a complete understanding of Burtynsky’s view of the world.</p><p>With an introduction by William A. Ewing and an essay by Joshua Schuster, this book provides both an entirely new way of seeing Burtynsky’s work.</p> 144 photographs in color