Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation
By Paul Roth • Jan 5th, 2010 •
Category: Edward Burtynsky, Lead Story, dystopia, entropy, enviro-disaster, features, photography
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of quarries, factories, mining pits and railcuts are extraordinary for their depiction of mankind’s organisation of the land for resource-extraction and profit. Paul Roth makes the case that Burtynsky is one of our most Ballardian artists. Adopting a style in overt homage to Ballard, the essay honours his legacy as the foremost imaginative interpreter of the world Burtynsky documents.
