Nicholas Metivier Gallery

Edward Burtynsky: OIL

A Steidl book release and touring exhibition organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC. surveys a decade of photographic work that explores the subject of oil. Edward Burtynsky has traveled internationally to chronicle the production, distribution, and use of the most critical fuel of our time.

In addition to revealing the rarely-seen mechanics of its manufacture, Burtynsky captures the effects of oil on our lives, depicting landscapes altered by its extraction from the earth, and by the cities and suburban sprawl generated around its use. He also addresses the coming “end of oil,” as we confront its rising cost and dwindling availability.

Published in 2009, by Steidl. 213 colour plates. ISBN 978-3-86521-943-5.

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Twice Removed – Brent McIntosh and Edward Burtynsky

The age-old dialogue between painting and photography is given renewed vitality in this collaborative endeavor between Edward Burtynsky and Brent McIntosh. Burtynsky revisited landscape photographs he took in the early 1980s, producing them in large scale. McIntosh created a series of paintings based on the photographs, which they jointly selected in light of their interest in Abstract Expressionism. 

Essay by Claude Baillargeon. Design by Barr Gilmore. 54 pages.

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Quarries – Edward Burtynsky

Published by Steidl in 2007, Quarries brings together all of Edward Burtysnky’s series on the subject from Vermont in 1991 to Iberia in 2006. The 168 colour reproductions include some of Burtynsky’s most recognized and iconic imagery. The catalogue essays are by Michael Mitchell, a Toronto-based writer, photographer and filmmaker.

“The concept of the landscape as architecture has become for me, an act of imagination. I remember looking at buildings made of stone, and thinking, there has to be an interesting landscape somewhere out there because these stones had to have been taken out of the quarry a block at a time. I had never seen a dimensional quarry, but I envisioned an inverted cubed architecture on the side of a hill. I went in search of it, and when I had it on my ground glass, I knew that I had arrived.”
— Edward Burtynsky

Hardcover, 38.1 cm x 30.4 cm, 978-3-86521-456-0

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Manufactured Landscapes

Manufactured Landscapes won best documentary at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, the film follows Burtynsky as he photographs his famous landscapes from his recent series, China.

DVD. Available online.

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China – Edward Burtynsky

China, Edward Burtynsky’s second major publication after Manufactured Landscapes, was published by Steidl in October 2005. The catalogue surveys 80 images from the China series.

Published by Steidl. Hardcover, 37 x 29.6 x 2.4 cm. ISBN 3-86521-130-5

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Manufactured Landscapes – The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

This catalogue was produced for the touring exhibition Manufactured Landscapes, organized by the National Gallery of Canada in 2003. The fully illustrated catalogue includes essays by Lori Pauli, Mark Haworth-Booth and Kenneth Baker and an interview with the artist by Michael Torosian. Images are from the Nickel Tailings, Shipbreaking, Oil Fields and Oil Refineries, Urban Mines, Quarries and Railcuts series.

Hardcover, 33.2 x 28.2 x 2 cm, ISBN 0-300-09943-6

Available online.

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