39. Above the Elk River, Curry County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Artist Robert Adams (American, born 1937)

Date1999–2003

Period20th-21st century

MediumGelatin silver print on paper

DimensionsMat Size: 14 x 18 inches

Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.

Object number2006.026.039

Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art

_Place of OriginUnited States

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36. Above the Elk River, Curry County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.036

37. Above the Elk River, Curry County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.037

38. Above the Elk River, Curry County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.038

33. Kerstin reading by the Elk River, in undisturbed woods mostly of Douglas fir, in the Siskiyou National Forest, Curry County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.033

35. Along Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center . . . released photos . . . from 700 miles above the earth, show[ing] a pattern of clearcutting throughout the entire rain forest of the Northwest that is so extensive that the land looks perforated by a giant blast of buck-shot. . . . Ninety percent of the original Northwest forest is gone. Timothy Egan The New York Times, June 1992 From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.035

98. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. The Oregon Department of Forestry proposes a “compromise” by which clearcutting would be done less often on state-owned land. It is a proposal that fails to acknowledge the central contention of many of the industry’s critics, that forests are sacred and must never be totally cut lest they be permanently destroyed. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.098

99. Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. The Oregon Department of Forestry proposes a “compromise” by which clearcutting would be done less often on state-owned land. It is a proposal that fails to acknowledge the central contention of many of the industry’s critics, that forests are sacred and must never be totally cut lest they be permanently destroyed. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.099

93. Curry County, Oregon. . . . the poor joiner, working at his wood, Knew not the tree from which the planks were taken, Knew not the glade from which the trunk was brought, Knew not the soil in which the roots were fast, Nor by what centuries of gales the boughs were shaken, But holds them all beneath his hands at last V. Sackville-West How much more difficult it is to imagine the origin of a sheet of chip board. As John Hay has written, we are “destroyers who are incapable of identifying our victims.”From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.093

30. Sitka spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.030

94. Along Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.094

95. Along Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.095

23. Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.023