speaking of gursky, how about edward burtynsky?

Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky, who "specializes in large-scale images of vast industrial landscapes" is the subject of Manufactured Landscapes. The film by Jennifer Baichwal, will play at Film Forum for 2 weeks, beginning June 20. Does this photographer remind you of anyone?

When I saw the preview this weekend (we were at Film Forum to see Let's Get Lost), I was whisper-yelling, "oh wow! a film about andreas gursky!! we have to see that!!" Until I realized it was not about Gursky. Now I doubly have to see it. There is a great similarity in their work. In fact, Manufacturing #17 by Edward Burtynsky pictured just below of the Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province, 2005,


is so similar in feeling to Andreas Gursky's repeating industrial landscape depicted in Siemens, Karlsruhe, 1991,


and similar in composition and picture plane density to Gursky's famed 99 Cent, 1999.



Suffice it to say, I am very interested in seeing Manufactured Landscapes, and was very sorry to find out that the Q&A screening with the director and photographer on June 20 is already sold out at Film Forum. I did read though that the film will have it's New York premiere at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the Walter Reade Theater on June 16. That screening will feature a discussing with Jennifer Baichwal to follow. I am going to try for those tickets.