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The Detroit image of the abandoned warehouse coveys what the oil industry chooses to reveal to the public. Edward Burtynsky’s Fisher Body Plant #1 photo taken in Detroit, Michigan depicts an abandoned building that has graffiti and trash covering the worn, brick wall with broken glass windows on the upper third of the photo. The bottom third of the photo is a puddle of water that stretches to the edge of the photo and reflects the building in the water. The water in the lower third can be interpreted as oil as it looks black and murky like oil and the broken building represents the oil industry. The “oil” only reflects a select part of the building and more specifically it reflects the transition between brick and glass. The part of the building that is reflected in the “oil” represents the part of the oil …show more content…

Burtynsky’s Detroit image reveals the transition between fossil fuels and renewable energy in the reflection of the building. The building is shown split in two parts, divided, into the brick and the glass. The reflection showing the brick to glass window transition could represent the transition from the oil industry to a cleaner resource such as solar or wind power. According to Yaeger when discussing people’s view of oil and alternate energy sources it is stated that: “by the 1970s America was consuming seventy percent of the world’s oil with little thought of sustainability(Yaeger 306). Sustainability is now an issue that is causing people to think of renewable energy sources in place of fossil fuels, which would change the oil industry’s hold on society. This also could convey the transitional time as brick represents the oil industry and the old ways of hiding chemical while the glass is transparent and often is thought to show what is behind it representing the exposure of petrochemicals in the oil

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