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Crescent Camp Number One, Timber Views Co., Seattle

Crescent Camp Number One, Timber Views Co., Seattle

Darius Kinsey
American, 1869–1945
1936
A gelatin silver photograph that records a 1936 clearcut and controlled burn in the Pacific Northwest, made to confront the scale of industrially altered landscape.
You’re struck by the stark drama—the foreground’s raked, serrated mounds of logging debris rising to a dark band of standing trees from which thick plumes of smoke billow against a brooding sky, giving the scene an almost elemental, monumental intensity.
Placed within documentary photography, the image links striking formal composition to early visual arguments about industrial logging’s environmental impact, helping shape later conversations about conservation and the photographic depiction of human-altered nature.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
14 1/4 × 19 1/2" (36.2 × 49.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Jesse E. Ebert
Accession
71.1966
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