In this video Edward Burtynsky is basically talking through this project called manufactured landscapes.
He explains his images and the stories behind the images. the reason i was particularly drawn to
this photographer and his work was because this really taught me a lesson about landscape
photography. Before starting this project i thought of landscapes and landscape photography
being of picturesque scenes of beautiful field and sunsets. When starting this project i came to
learn that there is so much more to landscape photography than what i had thought.
There is such a thing as Manufactured Landscapes. With this project being set in hartlepool
i could have remained with that pictureque theme by capturing images of the sea front or even
the marina. But after discovering this photographer i was inspired, and wanted to capture
landscape images of the centre of hartlepool town. Manufactured landscape photographs are
often unusual and i feel make you look at the scene so much more differently to what you would
if you were stood in the town looking at it through your eyes.
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/site_contents/Films/Manufactured_Landscapes_Film.html
"Manufactured Landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of 'manufactured landscapes' – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization's materials and debris, but in a way people describe as "stunning" or "beautiful," and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them."
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