African Studies: Edward Burtynsky craft The "Primer" section explores the

The "Primer" section explores the culture of this complex flower and explains the botany that makes each strain unique

The result is an inky photo transfer

Food as social ritual

Anna Altman

the Museum of Modern Art

African Studies: Edward Burtynsky craft The "Primer" section explores theIn Edward Burtynskys recent photographs, produced across the African continent, the patterns and scars of human altered landscapes initially appear to form an abstract painterly language; they reference the sublime and often surreal qualities of human mark making. While chronicling the major themes of terraforming and extraction, urbanization and deforestation, African Studies conveys the unsettling reality of sweeping resource depletion on both a