Washington Post story and gallery

[John Flavell]

The Washington Post has this to offer this morning: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103001161.html

Canadian photographer Ed Burtynsky's photographs of the industrialization of nature. He appears to be using a large format in the first image.

[Ralph]

Nice piece! Thanks for the link, John.

Wonder what this was about:

"All of this effort and machinery seem to appeal to the equipment geek in Burtynsky. Noah Weinzweig, his translator and all-purpose aide in China, recounts the day that the two of them were detained by the cops in Shanghai, for allegedly shooting in a neighborhood where that wasn't permitted.

" 'They tell us to go back to the hotel and bring all our equipment to the police station,' Weinzweig says. 'I'm getting a little nervous. Ed doesn't speak Chinese so he's bored, and while we're waiting in the police station, he starts looking at his camera and he discovers some function on it that he never knew about. This gets him excited beyond belief. He's like, 'Look, Noah, this is fantastic!' Meanwhile, the cops are figuring out what to do with us. I said, 'Ed, can we talk about this later?' "

(copyright 2005 Washington Post)

[Ralph]

To view the slideshow of his images (including the darkcloth one John refers to above) you'll want to click on the "Edward Burtynsky Photographs" box in the middle of the first page of the Post story.

[John Flavell]

Ralph, yes, sorry. The journalist in me left that thought incomplete. Helpful at times but not this time. Anyone going to see this show?

[Walter Foscari]

A couple of days ago the N.Y. Times also reviewed this show. Not as favorably it seems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/arts/design/28john.html

Walter

[John Flavell]

Good or bad, as far as reviews go, it seems to me that photography is getting it's own spotlight in the media. I like that part.