Hi! How are you all doing?
So in my CyberArts tech. class we have just started our photography unit! For this unit we will be focusing on manufactured landscapes as it is the base of our final culminating assignment for the class. To familiarize ourselves with this, we watched a documentary about Edward Burtynsky.
Who is Edward Burtynsky? Burtynsky is a famous Canadian photographer who uses manufactured landscapes as one of his main subjects of photography. He travels around the world to find landscapes that link industry to nature. He believes that his images "are metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear - Burtynsky".
The name of Edward Burtynsky's documentary is called "Manufactured Landscapes". This documentary shows Burtynsky's journey across China photographing manufactured or industrial landscapes; factories, recycling yards, etc. This film aimed to show us the shocking origins of where the materials we use come from and how they are effecting the environment, and people, around them.
This film showed us not only how and where Burtynsky took his large scale photographs, but showed us some of the stories and history behind them.
The movie was not all visual however. Though there were scenes of individuals speaking, there were also a lot of sound. Since this movie had a lot of long shots of image, corresponding sound was added to it (like sounds of machines), making the video more unified and interesting.
Personally, I have mixed emotions about this film. I thought that the photographs taken by Burtynsky were Beautiful! This was strange because the subjects that he took pictures of and the stories behind them were horrible. I believe Burtynsky's method of photography is amazing, he manages to create beautiful images while exposing the awfulness of them. It is very interesting. I found some beautiful yet terrible (in terms of subject) photographs that he has taken.
So in my CyberArts tech. class we have just started our photography unit! For this unit we will be focusing on manufactured landscapes as it is the base of our final culminating assignment for the class. To familiarize ourselves with this, we watched a documentary about Edward Burtynsky.
Who is Edward Burtynsky? Burtynsky is a famous Canadian photographer who uses manufactured landscapes as one of his main subjects of photography. He travels around the world to find landscapes that link industry to nature. He believes that his images "are metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear - Burtynsky".
The name of Edward Burtynsky's documentary is called "Manufactured Landscapes". This documentary shows Burtynsky's journey across China photographing manufactured or industrial landscapes; factories, recycling yards, etc. This film aimed to show us the shocking origins of where the materials we use come from and how they are effecting the environment, and people, around them.This film showed us not only how and where Burtynsky took his large scale photographs, but showed us some of the stories and history behind them.
The movie was not all visual however. Though there were scenes of individuals speaking, there were also a lot of sound. Since this movie had a lot of long shots of image, corresponding sound was added to it (like sounds of machines), making the video more unified and interesting.
Personally, I have mixed emotions about this film. I thought that the photographs taken by Burtynsky were Beautiful! This was strange because the subjects that he took pictures of and the stories behind them were horrible. I believe Burtynsky's method of photography is amazing, he manages to create beautiful images while exposing the awfulness of them. It is very interesting. I found some beautiful yet terrible (in terms of subject) photographs that he has taken.
Nickel Tailings No. 30Sudbury, Ontario 1996
Oxford Tire Pile #2Westley, California, USA, 1999
I believe that the only complaint I had about this film was that I had a lot of trouble focusing on the film. The film was 90minutes long and some of the scenes were elongated. There was one shot I remember at the very beginning where they just showed repeated, moving, scene of workers in a factory. It just went on and on and on. Speaking honestly, if there was no sound added to the capturing of images, I would have fallen asleep.
Regardless, if you found this interesting, do take a look at some of Edward Burtynsky's works here or watch Manufactured Landscapes. :)
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