
AMARC #5, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tuscon Arizona
A vast aerial view reveals hundreds of decommissioned military aircraft arranged in precise geometric rows across the sun-baked Arizona desert, their silver fuselages gleaming against the arid earth. Burtynsky's large-scale chromogenic print transforms this "boneyard" of obsolete war machines into an eerily beautiful and unsettling landscape, blurring the line between industrial waste and abstract pattern. The image provokes reflection on militarism, consumption, and the monumental scale of human production and its aftermath.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs Evening & Day
October 5, 2016
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