The first photographer I’m writing about here is Edward Burtynsky, and the book is Manufactured Landscape. The pictures in the book are just stunning, and notably the most interesting part is, although these suppose to be landscapes, they do not look like the usual landscapes we think about. They are landscapes that are created by human. The subjects he photographs are usually not considered beautiful, but through his photographs, Burtynsky extracts the beauty from the scene, and also the ugly reason that caused such scenery. The very first thing that I noticed is his photos often lacks something in there for scale. You can’t tell if its only a small hill or a gigantic mountain on the first look. And the ones that do have something you can recognize to comprehend the scale of the subject, the photograph often highlight the enormity very well. (You don’t know how big those rocks in the quarry field until you see some tiny people standing right next to it. He uses a lot of repetiti
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