While a graduate student at the School of Architecture at the University of California , Berkeley , Beaumont documented the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill through a series of black and white photographs called '' Steam Cleaning The Santa Barbara Shores … '' Her photographs captured the destruction of the shoreline ecosystem by the power washing oil from the rocks with high-pressure steam hoses
1969 Santa Barbara oil spill
1969 Santa Barbara oil spill
Betty Beaumont