WorldChanging "shows us a different world - the future we could create." The alternative being "we can have the kind of world Ed Burtynsky shows us." When Burtynsky - one of the most magnificent photographers working today - won the TED Prize, "he made a wish. That wish was to encourage a worldwide conversation about the planet, its problems and their possible solutions. Ed chose Worldchanging.com as the way to kick-start that conversation." And now they're bringing out a handsome-looking 608 page book called WorldChanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, on Jan 1, 2007.
Burtynsky is perhaps the finest photographer working today - and absolutely the greatest ever working in the genre of the man-made environment. His illustrations of Ontario uranium tailings, the Three Gorges Dam project and factories in China, shipbreaking and quarries in India - are meticulous and beautifully executed, with the compulsion and pathos of any rendering of a famine victim. Burtynsky is an Ansel Adams for the Unsustainable Age. He is also founder of Toronto Image Works Institute, a training facility for new media artists and digital publishing house. Despite his international stature, he often makes his pieces available for astoundingly modest prices, vis this edition of 25 Shipyard #11 at $900 from Blind Spot. And we all know how important price is to me! Teehee. But if you just want a taste - and a fantastically great taste it is - check out his wonderful book Manufactured Landscapes
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His work is stunning. I go back time and time again to his site. I didn't even think to look if he had a book, so thanks for that.