Manufactured Landscapes


Keeping with the apocalyptic image theme ...
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Mongrel Media has some large photos by Edward Burtynsky of from the film Manufactured Landscapes. It's on Netflix.

Over the past twenty-five years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale color photographs of the landscapes of mining, quarrying, railcutting, recycling, oil refining, and shipbreaking uncover a stark, almost sublime beauty in the residue of industrial “progress.” -- Lori Pauli, Assistant Curator National Gallery of Canada

These images bring to mind the achingly farcical, or is it tragic, final scene in the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi. The rocket falls, will it ever hit the ground? Nothing but images in that film (and Philip Glass) and it will demonstrate how compelling a language images are.

I should mention again Robert Levers.

Time to repost my art teacher's visions

Posted: Sat - February 17, 2007 at 01:22 AM            

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