For a long time oil has been the most important fuel of the global industrial development. Edward Burtynsky has followed the track of this precious resource, from the conveyance, to the production, over the distribution to the recycling and utilization in the most different contexts.
He provides impressive pictures of huge oil fields, he grants insight in the processing and explores the enormous, omnipresent impact of oil on our life, our culture and the industrial evolution.
Refineries, oil platforms, channels of distribution on water and land - the appetite for oil has generated constructions of inapprehensible dimensions. Also the delusion of mobility apparently knows no limits – automobiles, motorbikes, planes, ships, but also streets, scrap and piles of tires, as far as the eye can reach.
What will actually happen when the energy source oil runs dry? We don’t find an answer to this question here, but it has already become louder. |
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Steidl, 2009 /// 375 x 295 mm /// 140 pages /// 100 color plates /// clothbound hardcover with dustjacket /// English
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€98.00
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