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Edward Burtynsky's photography shows how mining, farming and other industrial activities have altered landscapes around the world
December 14, 2011 | 5
Abstract crop fields of Monegros County in Aragon, Spain was taken from a 600-meter aerial view. This image is part of Edward Burtynsky’s most recent series from 2010.
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The Discoverer Enterprise, a drill ship nearly three U.S. football fields long, floats on an oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico on May 11, 2010.
In 2007, Burtynsky documented Silver Lake’s gold mining operations in Lake Lefroy, in western Australia.
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Iberia Quarries # 8 shows Cochicho Company in the process of mining for minerals in Pardais, Portugal, in 2006. This is part of Burtynsky’s large quarries series.
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Burtynsky photographed the world’s largest hydroelectric project, Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China, during construction in 2005.
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Ship breaking literally breaks down vessels and recycles the scraps. Burtynsky went to a large ship breaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh in 2000....[More]
In 2003, Burtynsky photographed an army of oil rigs in Belridge, Calif.
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Oxford Tire Pile #8 is a part of Burtynsky’s Urban Mines series that shows two mounds of discarded rubber in Westley, Calif., from 1999.
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Nickel tailings, waste from mining, found floating in a river in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, from 1996.
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The first in Burtynsky’s quarries series, Rock of Ages # 1, shows an active section of E.L. Smith Quarry in Barre, Vt., from 1991.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisCalifornia, where I was born and raised and made children, has had an unnatural amount of mining. Almost all of it occurred without regulation. My children are both autistic. I called the suppossed air regulators and now they regulate mercury in the air, which should have been obvious centuries ago to the guy who told humanity to mine and use mercury in the first place. I wrote a paper on the causes of autism, please read it. It is on my MySpace page in the blog for Mark Reman Hamilton
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswe've seen enough pictures, like the Jewish genocide of the 40's. We know, we do not need to see any more pictures. The people ignorant of the need to respect the planet we are chained to must be fueled by some deluded vision that they will leave this shithole when they are done with it. Where are they going? I'd like to go there myself, but that's a pipe dream. We have to fix this planet or it's going to fix us; easy for me to see. But they, the royal we, won't see it that way because Rush is right, in their dreams, subconscious. The ability to get into their dreams would be a nice trick. Can we try that with things more powerful than pictures?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisRush is paid by bad people to talk trash.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisRead up about his life, and the trouble he has gotten himself into, he's good qualities are few.
Notice the type of people that listen to him, they are the same.
It's takes time and money to clean up.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe deniers are cheap...not stupid, and motivated by greed.
Even small kids know when something is dirty.