[HN Gopher] Edward Burtynsky's monumental chronicle of the human...
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Edward Burtynsky's monumental chronicle of the human impact on the
planet
Author : pseudolus
Score : 104 points
Date : 2025-07-13 02:47 UTC (20 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.newyorker.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com)
| pseudolus wrote:
| https://archive.ph/hTj6w
| linusg789 wrote:
| http://web.archive.org/web/20250713051005/https://www.newyor...
| cardamomo wrote:
| There's a fantastic documentary about Burtynsky's work,
| Manufactured Landscapes. I highly recommend it, even if you just
| watch the opening.
| https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/manufactured-...
| Duanemclemore wrote:
| It's actually the first in what became a series!
|
| Watermark [0] and The Anthropocene[1] are both phenomenal. In
| fact, in terms of cinematography, I think Watermark is the
| best. Manufactured Landscapes was absolutely earth-shattering
| in my own consideration of humans and our ecologies though.
|
| If you find yourself liking Burtynsky may I also suggest
| checking out Richard Misrach and the classic book of Manfred
| Hamm photography, Dead Tech [2].
|
| (We'd be remiss to leave out the contributions of Jennifer
| Baichwal to all three films and Nicholas de Pencier on The
| Anthropocene.)
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| [0] https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/watermark
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| [1]
| https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/anthropocene-...
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| [2] https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Tech-Guide-Archaeology-
| Tomorrow/... (Only linked to Amazon because people have posted
| images)
| cardamomo wrote:
| Wow, thanks for telling me! I watched Manufactured Landscapes
| back before the other two had come out and hadn't heard about
| the rest of the trilogy.
| cnr wrote:
| The whole movie is available on Internet Archive:
| https://archive.org/details/ManufacturedLandscapes_201902
| ethan_smith wrote:
| Burtynsky's environmental trilogy is worth exploring in full:
| Manufactured Landscapes (2006), Watermark (2013), and
| Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018).
| bookofjoe wrote:
| All three available to stream on Prime Video
| atoav wrote:
| The first picture must be these windmills that ruin the
| landscape. /s
| pseudolus wrote:
| Link to the show at the International Center of Photography
| (NYC): https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/edward-burtynsky-great-
| accel...
|
| Petapixel article with more photos and commentary:
| https://petapixel.com/2025/06/24/photographer-edward-burtyns...
| jebarker wrote:
| I just finished reading "The Sixth Extinction" and it's hard not
| to just feel sadness at many of these pictures. The economic
| benefits of this rapid human development are undeniable but the
| impact on earth as a whole is pretty horrifying.
| frogperson wrote:
| That book put me in a really bad place for more than a year. It
| was so depressing, i just couldnt shake the inevitablity of it
| all.
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| The fascist take over of the US has been a quaint distraction,
| but in the end it also means nothing compared to the collapse
| of the food chain. You cant eat dollars.
| jebarker wrote:
| Yeah, the dissonance of day to day stresses and societal
| issues with mass extinction is hard to deal with. I'm
| currently putting together a pile of a few books that claim
| to have pragmatic but optimistic/hopeful views of where we go
| from here.
| vitorbaptistaa wrote:
| Any good suggestions so far? The best I read was Not The
| End of The World by Hannah Ritchie from Our World in Data.
| jebarker wrote:
| Thanks for the suggestion. Two I've already read that I
| thought were decent were Bill Gate's "How to avoid a
| climate disaster" and Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry
| for the Future". I have Drawdown next on my list.
| AndrewKemendo wrote:
| Scarcely different than the world shown in WALL-E or idiocracy
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