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Edward Burtynsky at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler

The portentousness and inflated size of Burtynsky's photographs can be off-putting, but his color prints are frequently beautiful, and an artist's willingness to tackle big subjects can't be taken for granted these days.

His main theme here—the global impact of oil—yields a broad range of landscape images, and the work's grand scale never feels unearned. Elevated, classically omniscient scenes of oil fields and refineries, new-car lots, and a Los Angeles freeway interchange are astonishingly detailed and absorbing. A newer series of aerial views of mining operations in Australia turn the gouged earth, almost unrecognizable as actual landscape, into vigorous abstractions.

From The New Yorker.