Main entry:

Burtynsky, Edward, 1955-

Title & Author:

Burtynsky : oil / photographs, Edward Burtynsky ; essays, Michael Mitchell, William E. Rees, Paul Roth ; [editor, Marcus Schubert].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Göttingen : Steidl ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2009.

Description:

215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 x 37 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with exhibitions held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Oct. 3-Dec. 13, 2009 and Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography Amsterdam, Dec. 5, 2009-Feb. 28, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (page 200).
Extraction and refinement -- Transportation and motor culture -- The end of oil.

Summary:

"Edward Burtynsky's Oil collects a decades' worth of photographing the world's largest oil fields, refineries, freeway interchanges and automobile plants, in an attempt to comprehend the scale of production attending this most politicized of resources. The ideal photographer for this job, Burtynsky locates and documents the sites that urban dwellers never see, and questions human accountability. His imagery is vast in both scale and ambition, revealing the apparatus behind the energy we mine from dwindling resources, and the ongoing effects of the industrial revolution. "In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany," Burtynsky explains: "it occurred to me that all the vast, man-altered landscapes I had been in pursuit of for over 20 years were all possible because of the discovery of oil and the mechanical advantage of the internal combustion engine." Burtynsky's epiphany is typical of his desire to lift the scrim of everyday life and reveal the basic resources that keep it in place. What lies beyond is not pretty, and the images in Oil sometimes resemble the post-apocalyptic desert landscapes of Mad Max, with their vast horizons of featureless sand and desert foliage, punctuated by creaky-looking oil machinery. With a unflinching eye, Burtynsky presents us with the reality of oil production as its role in our civilization undergoes massive transformation."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783865219435 (hbk.)
3865219438 (hbk.)

Subject:

Burtynsky, Edward, 1955- Exhibitions.
Burtynsky, Edward, 1955- Expositions.
Burtynsky, Edward, 1955-
Burtynsky, Edward 1955-
Burtynsky, Edward, 1955- utställningskataloger.
Burtynsky, Edward.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Petroleum industry and trade Pictorial works.
Photography, Industrial Exhibitions.
Oil fields Pictorial works.
Pétrole Industrie et commerce Ouvrages illustrés.
Gisements pétrolifères Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photographie industrielle Expositions.
Oil fields
Petroleum industry and trade
Photography, Artistic
Photography, Industrial
Erdölkonzern
Ölfeld
Erdölindustrie
Erdölprodukt
Erdöl
Fotografie
Fotografer Kanada 1945- utställningskataloger.
Fotografi Kanada 1990-talet sekelskiftet 2000 utställningskataloger.
Fotokonst Kanada 1990-talet sekelskiftet 2000 utställningskataloger.
Oljeindustri bildverk.
Olja (petroleum) bildverk.

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Washington (DC) 2009.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Ausstellung.
Washington (DC, 2009)

Added entries:

Mitchell, Michael, 1943-
Rees, William E.
Roth, Paul, 1966-
Schubert, Marcus, 1955-
Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Huis Marseille (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Oil
Edward Burtynsky : oil

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 264578
Call No.: BIB 196029
Status: Available