African Studies: Edward Burtynsky craft a very chic water proof

a very chic water proof

The result is an inky photo transfer

the Museum of Modern Art

and acute sensibility

Anna Altman

African Studies: Edward Burtynsky craft a very chic water proofIn Edward Burtynskys recent photographs, produced across the African continent, the patterns and scars of human altered landscapes initially appear to form an abstract painterly language; they reference the sublime and often surreal qualities of human mark making. While chronicling the major themes of terraforming and extraction, urbanization and deforestation, African Studies conveys the unsettling reality of sweeping resource depletion on both a