The focus of this interview is on curatorial influence on visitors’ experience, enumerating the most common steps of engagement with Edward Burtynsky’s images: (1) a burst of aesthetic wonder during the initial visual impact of the large-scale photographs; (2) a gradual recognition of the subject and meaning behind the photograph; (3) an intuition of the method’s complexity—how Burtynsky’s specific techniques and photographic tools are deployed to elicit these responses; and, finally, (4) the resulting causation—visitors engage with the underlying motivations, influences, and environmental concerns (sometimes the loop repeats itself from the beginning). The recent exhibition serves as an example.

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