Edward Burtynsky: The Biography

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, is one of the world's most important contemporary artists. His life and art have been dedicated to investigating the large-scale human incursions into the surface of the earth, to dealing with climate change, and to demonstrating the proliferation of toxins that threatenthe very existence of civilization. This narrative--focused on the aesthetic means that Burtynsky has utilised to frame those issues--describes in detail the unfolding of his artistry.

Through a long and varied career, Burtynsky has charted the ways in which humankind is systematically destroying the biodiversity of our planet, and by extension, itself. He has devoted most of his creative life to this endeavour. One of the major thrusts of this book concerns Burtynsky's crusade to display earth's destruction. In vivid, visually compelling ways he shows our world in crisis. Put another way, his work emphasizes how various forms of extraction have endangered its survival. By inclination, he was, and remains,
an explorer of how humanity is at odds with nature.