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Darius Kinsey

c. 1910

A gelatin silver print by Darius Kinsey that records a group of loggers standing among toppled giants, aiming to show the immense scale of the timber industry and the labor that sustained it.

What first hits you is the sea of massive fallen trunks and the thin, vertical trunks still standing, with small clusters of men placed like punctuation that measure the forest’s vast, fog‑softened emptiness.

Part of the early twentieth‑century visual record of the Pacific Northwest, Kinsey’s photographs made the industrial reshaping of wilderness—and the human work behind it—plain to distant viewers, shaping conversations about resource use and labor.

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Art Terms

Gelatin silverprint (developing-out paper) Photography Documentary photography Landscape Industrialization

Exhibitions

Photographs of the Civil War and the American Frontier

1942

Photographs Before Surrealism

1968

Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics

1940

The Photographer and the American Landscape

1963