Manufactured Landscapes

...capture soulless workplaces across China with a dismayed wonder that contrasts starkly with the celebratory montages of the Constructivists of Soviet Russia.

Canadian art photographer Burtynsky is the Ansel Adams of toxic waste. He takes really beautiful long-view shots of industrial scenes: factories; dumps; pollution; huge groups of anonymous, uniformed workers toiling on assembly lines.

A gorgeous documentary that amplifies the power of Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of terrain turned into rivers and tides of industrial ugliness.