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Manufactured landscapes : the photographs of Edward Burtynsky
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13737
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Pauli, Lori
- Haworth-Booth, Mark
- Baker, Kenneth
- Torosian, Michael
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
- Edition
- Fifth printing 2006
- Call Number
- 06.4 B95mp copy 1 - Oversize
- 06.4 B95mp copy 2 - Reading Room (Feb 17, 2022)
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- Responsibility
- Lori Pauli
- Mark Haworth-Booth
- Kenneth Baker
- Michael Torosian
- Edition
- Fifth printing 2006
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 160 p. : col. ill.
- Abstract
- "....documenting the effect of industrialization on the environment, Burtynsky provokes his viewers to contemplate the world he shoots. Published in conjunction with the first major retrospective of Burtynsky's work, this book requires more than a quick flip through the pages. At first one is dazzled by the color and apparent fluidity in the landscapes that he captures, but on deeper examination one begins to realize that these are quarry mines, oil refining factories, and recycling centers. Not your typical coffee-table book, this comes with a social and environmental message that should not be ignored. Essays by three curator/critics and an interview with the artist complement the 64 large-scale color images. Recommended for academic libraries and large art photo collections." – Sheila Devaney, University of Georgia (from Edward Burtynsky website)
- Contents
- Message from the sponsor
- Foreward
- Author's acknowledgements
- Seeing the big picture - Lori Pauli
- Edward Burtynsky : traditions and affinities - Mark Haworth-Booth
- Form versus porten t: Edward Burtynsky's endangered landscapes - Kenneth Baker
- The essential element : an interview with Edward Burtynsky - Michael Torosian
- Plates
- List of works
- Chronology
- Selected exhibitions
- Public collections
- Selected bibliography
- Notes
- Published as a companion to exhibition of National Gallery of Canada in 2003
- With essays by Mark Haworth-Booth and Kenneth Baker and an interview by Michael Torosian
- ISBN
- 9780300099430
- Accession Number
- 50500
- 2021.08
- Call Number
- 06.4 B95mp copy 1 - Oversize
- 06.4 B95mp copy 2 - Reading Room (Feb 17, 2022)
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Book on artist's website
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Eating dirt : deep forests, big timber, and life with the tree-planting tribe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25247
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Gill, Charlotte
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Greystone Books
- Call Number
- 03.6 G41e
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- Author
- Gill, Charlotte
- Responsibility
- Charlotte Gill
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Greystone Books
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 247 pages
- Abstract
- A tree planter's vivid story of a unique subculture and the magical life of the forest. Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clearcuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clearcuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers. In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems. She looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and touches on the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts. Eating Dirt also eloquently evokes the wonder of trees, which grow from tiny seeds into one of the world's largest organisms, our slowest-growing ""renewable"" resource. Most of all, the book joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- The last place on Earth -- A kind of tribe -- Rookie Years -- Green fluorescent protein -- A furious way of being -- The town that logging made -- At the end of the reach -- Extremophiles -- Sunset -- Exit lines.
- Notes
- Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.
- ISBN
- 9781553657927
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.6 G41e
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Lane, C. Alexia
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 03.6 L24o
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- Author
- Lane, C. Alexia
- Responsibility
- C. Alexia Lane
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 127 pages
- Abstract
- Around the world, a significant shift from conventional to unconventional energy extraction is occurring like never before. As traditional energy sources dwindle and the demand for fossil fuels continues to increase, civilization seems to be taking greater and greater risks in order to fuel our consumption and over-use of this planet’s natural resources. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, has emerged as a lightning rod of controversy as engaged citizens grow more and more concerned with the threats facing fresh water resources, local geology and sensitive landscapes. C. Alexia Lane’s first RMB Manifesto introduces readers to the practice of “fracking” and makes it clear that there is an urgent need for current policies to be reformed in order to alleviate ever-growing community, ecological and environmental concerns. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- That was then ... -- This is now ... -- The wild wests : governance of water and energy in North America -- Environmental and health concerns -- Groundwater -- Future focus.
- ISBN
- 9781927330807
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.6 L24o
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Dining with Canadian Railways : Volume I - Canadian Pacific chinaware
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19845
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Smith, Will
- Publisher
- [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
- Call Number
- 08.5 Sm5d
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- Author
- Smith, Will
- Responsibility
- Will Smith
- Publisher
- [Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- [248 pages] : illustrations (some colour), map
- Subjects
- Railways
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
- Restaurants
- Travel
- Canada
- Industry
- History
- History-Canada
- Hotels
- Abstract
- Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book
- Chapter 2 - Research sources
- Chapter 3 - Railway
- Chapter 4 - Steamships
- Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants
- Chapter 6 - Airline
- Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos
- Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations
- Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?
- Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware
- Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions
- Chapter 12 - Market value
- Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing
- Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns
- Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns
- Chapter 16 - Airline patterns
- Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes
- Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer
- Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction
- Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations
- Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province
- Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781999382100
- Accession Number
- 2019.27
- Call Number
- 08.5 Sm5d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication
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