The sites depicted in LaChapelle's LAND SCAPE represent the globally networked industrial infrastructure of oil production and distribution. The gas stations and refineries that populate iconic locations are staged as architectural avatars of a planet coping with the stresses of peak-oil - even as the buildings' dazzling spectacle and retro-future aesthetic distracts from the dangers of their function. Both bodies of work use handcrafted scale models, constructed of cardboard and a vast array of recycled materials from egg cartons to tea canisters, hair curlers, and other by-products of our petroleum-based, disposability-obsessed culture
- ISBN13 9788862083317
- Publish Date 1 September 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 July 2023
- Publish Country IT
- Imprint Damiani
- Format Paperback
- Pages 88
- Language English