Beautiful pictures of landscapes altered by industry from Edward Burtynsky (21 pics)

Posted in PICTURES       25 Sep 2009       13076
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist. His works are housed in over fifty museums worldwide, numerous corporate collections, and books.
Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict.
What is impressive with his works is that he can take a picture of the consequences of industrialization on nature and make it beautiful.
Beautiful pictures of landscapes altered by industry from Edward Burtynsky (21 pics)
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