Edward Burtynsky Up Close

The travelling Burtynsky retrospective continues to snowball as it slowly makes its way to NYC. It's currently showing at the Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center. As befits the cradle of Silicon Valley, the Stanford site promoting the show is chock full of technology. The online pictures use a magnification gizmo that lets you zoom in and see exactly how crisp and detailed Burtyunsky's work really is. Not the same as seeing it up close, but kind of cool. The other thing is that each image online has an associated discussion thread. This actually is hard to replicate in a gallery space - an ongoing discussion of the work and its broader meaning in the world. Unless you have a really big circle of gallery-going friends.