'97 Canada Photo Print 2/5 Ferrous Bushlings #9 Hamilton, ON Ed Burtynsky (DaM)

Up for sale from a local estate in Honolulu Hawaii this 1997 framed limited edition 2/5 chromogenic color print photograph that is titled Ferrous Bushlings #9 Hamilton, Ontario showing a giant scrap metal pile and was created by the well known artist Ed Burtynsky (born 1955). The condition is described above for more information please check the photos.

Measurements:

Photo (sight) 39.5 inches x 50.25 inches

Frame 48.25 inches x 59 inches

Additional info of the series:

URBAN MINES

Artist's Statement

"I wanted to build a branch off the main core of my work and not locate it strictly within the realm of the landscape. I wanted to find the next place.


I considered that there is primary mining - we go to the land and we blast and we take ore - that is the initial extraction. And then there is the relatively modern phenomenon of recycling - the source for the secondary level of extraction. This is the "urban mine". I felt it had a natural conceptual connection to everything I had done." - Edward Burtynsky


We've never stopped taking things from nature. Even the act of taking from the earth is natural since we are not outside of nature. What is different today is the scale. Current society is searching for a way to come to terms with that taking from the earth. Recycling is one way we can put a stop to a certain amount of damage to the earth. This material comes from and collects around urban centres in large recycling yards. These yards are like secondary mines.

More about the artist:

Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large-format photographs of nature transformed through industry and his investigation into our continually compromised environment.


His most recent project ,"Salt Pans," conveys both the sublime aesthetic qualities of the industrialised landscape and the unsettling reality of depleting resources on the planet, through a series of geometric compositions photographed from the air above the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, India. It is also the subject of a new book published by Steidl.


Often shot from an aerial perspective, the photographs in Burtynsky's major project "Water" take on a unique abstraction and painterly quality. Many of the images focus our attention not on water itself, but on the systems that humans have put in place in order to harness, shape and commodify it. "Water" follows the format of previous projects such as Oil, China and Quarries in its encyclopaedic exploration of a broad theme through a series of connected chapters or locations.


Edward Burtynsky's works are in the collections of over fifty museums worldwide, including: Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim, New York; Tate Modern, London; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa, Madrid and the National Gallery of Canada.


Burtynsky is the subject of Jennifer Baichwal's 2006 documentary Manufactured Landscapes. In 2014 the pair collaborated on a second film Watermark. Shot in stunning 5K ultra high-definition video and full of soaring aerial perspectives, this film shows water as a terra-forming element and the scale of its reach, as well as the magnitude of our need and use.


Burtynsky received the inaugural TED Prize in 2005, in 2006, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2012 he won the Tiffany Mark award.


He holds four honorary doctorate degrees (two additional forthcoming in 2013). His distinctions also include the National Magazine Award, MOCCA award, Outreach Award at Rencontres d'Arles, ICP Infinity Award and the Kraszna Krausz Book Award.


Source:

"Edward Burtynsky," Flowers Galleries, Web, Feb. 2018

Condition: 

The print and frame are overall in great pre-owned condition, the gallery info is attached to the backing, the frame with some scratches and scuff marks in places