Publisher Note
For more than thirty years Lowell Georgia has traveled the world to document of the oil and gas industry. Oil and Gas is a collection of photographic essays documenting the people, machines, landscapes he discovered along his journey.
Vivid scenes unfold across the pages of this book: firefightes battling a raging oil inferno: polar bears dining on a whale carcass in the oil-rich Nortwest Territories; excited traders swarming the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange; pure gold light reflecting a single drop of oil…
Oil and Gas captures the essence of this iconic American industry.
From the Gulf of Mexico and the Indian Ocean to the vast plains of Oklahoma and the outer reaches of the Sahara, this book is an insider’s view of life on and around the platforms, pipelines, rigs and energy offices of the world.
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Lowell Georgia (1933-2021) was an American photojournalist.
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| Edition | 1st edition |
| Release Date | 2009 |
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ISBN-13:
9780979410512
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| Topics | Oil, Oil Company |
| Language | English |
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| Format | Hardcover |
| Dimensions | 28.0 × 32.0 cm |
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| Pages | 156 |
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