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February 06, 2007
Manufactured Landscapes: Baichwal on making and breaking
Jennifer Baichwal's cool, elegant documentary, a highlight of Sundance 2007, follows Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky (shot by Peter Mettler) as he takes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. As the Canadian distributor puts it, Burtynsky "photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as 'stunning' or 'beautiful,; and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them." At the jump, video of part of my Sundance interview with Baichwal about how the documentary came to be and a bit of esthetic pondering, photographed by Rose Kuo: I'm the invisible person out of frame to the left that Baichwal's responding to.
Posted by Ray Pride at February 6, 2007 10:37 AM
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