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80. A machine for stripping the limbs from immature trees. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
80. A machine for stripping the limbs from immature trees. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

80. A machine for stripping the limbs from immature trees. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Artist (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 number2006.026.080
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
79. A machine for stripping the limbs from immature trees. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
79. A machine for stripping the limbs from immature trees. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.079
54. Stacking the de-limbed trunks of an immature “harvest,” Columbia County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
54. Stacking the de-limbed trunks of an immature “harvest,” Columbia County, Oregon. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.054
Image Not Available for 59. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
59. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.059
60. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
60. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.060
119. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
119. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.119
118. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
118. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.118
113. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
113. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.113
114. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
114. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.114
115. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
115. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.115
117. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
117. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.117
120. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
120. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.120
121. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
121. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.121