Untitled
Darius Kinsey
American, 1869–1945
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.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
10 9/16 × 13 3/4" (26.8 × 35 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Anonymous gift
Accession
1591.2001
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