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Edward burtynsky
Silver Lake Operations #12, Lake Lefroy,
Western Australia, 2007
Lightjet c-print
image: 50.8 cm x 61 cm on 66 cm x 76.2 cm substrate
edition 19/25
image courtesy the artist and Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
ESTIMATE: $7,000
Edward Burtynsky is one of Canada’s preeminent and internationally acclaimed photographers. Since the late 1970s, he has crossed the globe to produce remarkable photographic depictions of our contemporary industrial economy. His powerful images, rich in detail and scale, remind us of the complex relationship between humans and nature. He depicts landscapes demonstrably impacted by industries like mining, quarrying, recycling, oil refining and shipbreaking, showing the extraordinary impact contemporary societies have wrought.
In 2008, Burtynksy documented industrial, manufacturing, recycling, and urban sites throughout China in a body of riveting colour photographs that provided rare and privileged glimpses of the social and economic transformation underway in this rapidly developing superpower. Silver Lake Operations #12 is from a series of images Burtynsky took in 2007 immediately prior to the China project. It documents a mammoth open pit copper mine in Western Australia. Burtynsky is currently producing images of freeway systems in Los Angeles and has recently completed a large suite of photographs documenting Northern Alberta’s Athabaskan Tar Sands.
Burtynsky’s works are included in the collections of 15 major museums worldwide including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art as well as the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He is represented by Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto.
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