BURTYNSKY: OIL.
Edward Burtynsky is one if Canada's most respected photographers.
These two prints are a very poor representation of the beautiful square meter prints on view in the gallery. They feature two phases of his OIL series. Namely - Extraction and The End of OIL. The top two combine to make one huge panorama of geometric patterns of
oil pipes and pumps and ancillary equipment with an infinite depth of field, and a high resolution taken in a late afternoon light
.The second image, one of his End of Oil series,
shows the breaking up of discarded oil tankers
at Chittagong.
The overbearing mass of steelwork is emphasised by the worker in the lower right foreground. here as in the other two he has used the warm evening light to embrace the towering hulks of rust.
This copy of his Oxford Tire Pile does not do justice to this image of a crater of tyres. The original does not contain the shades of distracting light, the sides of the crater appear much steeper and unstable, the image has an atmosphere of menace.
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