85. A clearcut as seen from within the edge of a “beauty screen,” Clatsop County, Oregon. Timber companies now leave thin strips of woodland along public roads to mask clearcuts. When these deceptions cannot obscure the facts, corporations sometimes employ landscape architects to design clearcuts so that they will mimic the appearance of naturally open areas like meadows and rock slides. To further disguise their work, the forest products industry generates voluminous propaganda. Not many wars, even, have been justified by so much lying. 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 number2006.026.085

Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art

_Place of OriginUnited States

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86. A clearcut as seen from within the edge of a “beauty screen,” Clatsop County, Oregon. Timber companies now leave thin strips of woodland along public roads to mask clearcuts. When these deceptions cannot obscure the facts, corporations sometimes employ landscape architects to design clearcuts so that they will mimic the appearance of naturally open areas like meadows and rock slides. To further disguise their work, the forest products industry generates voluminous propaganda. Not many wars, even, have been justified by so much lying. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.086

51. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.051

53. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.053

52. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.052

43. At the edge of a clearcut, Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon. Trees taken near the Coast Highway, as here, are often not replanted because the acreage is too valuable for other kinds of development. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.043

44. At the edge of a clearcut, Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon. Trees taken near the Coast Highway, as here, are often not replanted because the acreage is too valuable for other kinds of development. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.044

45. At the edge of a clearcut, Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon. Trees taken near the Coast Highway, as here, are often not replanted because the acreage is too valuable for other kinds of development. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.045

46. At the edge of a clearcut, Warrenton, Clatsop County, Oregon. Trees taken near the Coast Highway, as here, are often not replanted because the acreage is too valuable for other kinds of development. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.046

47. A clearcut, Columbia County, Oregon. Cable is frequently broken or snarled and abandoned in the process of dragging trees to a loading point. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.047

48. A clearcut, Columbia County, Oregon. Cable is frequently broken or snarled and abandoned in the process of dragging trees to a loading point. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.048

(En choeur): “Le soleil est si beau!” (à part) coquin de temps! (en choeur): “Et puis de ma Bretagne le soleil est si beau!…” Vive Loisa Puget!!!!!……
[(Chorus) “The sun shines so bright!” (aside) What foul weather! (Chorus) “O my native Brittany, where glows the sun so bright…” Hurrah for Loisa Puget!]
from the series Les Musiciens de Paris, number 3, published in La Caricature (Deuxième Publication)

Honoré Daumier

October 31, 1841

Object number: 2014.183

Head of the Wounded Amazon of the So-Called Sosikles Type

Anonymous (Greek)

late 4th–early 3rd century BCE, Late Classical or Early Hellenistic period

Object number: 2009.001