Edward Burtynsky: Oil
Edward Burtynsky’s haunting new photography show at Washington’s Corcoran Gallery captures the beauty and devastation of petroleum on our planet. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Edward Burtynsky’s haunting new photography exhibit captures the beauty and devastation of oil on our planet.
Edward Burtynsky: Oil is showing at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery in New York. “When I first started photographing industry, it was out of a sense of awe at what we as a species were up to,” Burtynsky writes. “Our achievements became a source of infinite possibilities. But time goes on, and that flush of wonder began to turn. The car that I drove cross-country began to represent not only freedom, but also something much more conflicted. I began to think about oil itself: as both the source of energy that makes everything possible, and as a source of dread, for its ongoing endangerment of our habitat.”
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
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