
Thjorsá River #1, Southern Region, Iceland
Edward Burtynsky's 'Thjorsá River #1, Southern Region, Iceland' is a chromogenic print mounted on a support. The work showcases Burtynsky's renowned large-scale landscape photography documenting natural environments.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print, mounted.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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November 23, 2021
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Andreas Gursky
German · b. 1955

Gursky creates large scale color photography of landscapes and environments with a similarly cool, detached and panoramic aesthetic, often emphasizing the sublime scale of natural and industrial spaces as Burtynsky does in this Icelandic river photograph.

Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian · b. 1944

Salgado produces monumental documentary landscape photography that captures pristine and dramatic natural environments with the same sense of awe and environmental consciousness present in Burtynsky's Icelandic river imagery.
Olaf Otto Becker
German · b. 1959
Becker is best known for his large format color photography of Iceland and Arctic landscapes, capturing rivers, glaciers and raw Nordic terrain with a similarly cool blue palette and documentary reverence for threatened natural environments.
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