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Edward Burtynsky's Devastating "Oil" (A Slideshow)

A landscape photograph by Edward Burynsky can be as frozen as it is arresting. But stare at his portraits of China's Three Gorges Dam or the Alberta tar sands, and you can almost make out Earth in motion. In his massive prints, the built and natural... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Thu, Oct 22 2009

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