141. Harney 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: 20 x 25 inches

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

Object number2006.026.141

Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art

_Place of OriginUnited States

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Robert Adams

1999–2003

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Robert Adams

1999–2003

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34. Sitka spruce, Klootchy Creek Park, Clatsop County, Oregon. This 750-year-old tree, which is 206 feet tall and 56 feet in circumference, is the largest tree now standing in Oregon, though it is characteristic of many that used to stand in the original forest. In its presence we find stillness. And perhaps some anxiety: the attack on the tree that Julia Butterfly Hill risked her life to save is representative of a pathology now quite common in the Northwest. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.034

62. Clatsop County, Oregon. Photographs are silent but the destruction of a forest is not. Pablo Neruda remembered that his “homeland of wood . . . died in the screeching of sawmills.” Barry Lopez, in describing a stranding of whales on the Oregon coast, likened the cry of a whale to “the sound a big fir makes breaking off the stump just as the saw is pulled away. A thin screech.” Landscape painter Emily Carr referred to stumps, which she painted with compassion, as “screamers.” From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.062

63. Clatsop County, Oregon. Photographs are silent but the destruction of a forest is not. Pablo Neruda remembered that his “homeland of wood . . . died in the screeching of sawmills.” Barry Lopez, in describing a stranding of whales on the Oregon coast, likened the cry of a whale to “the sound a big fir makes breaking off the stump just as the saw is pulled away. A thin screech.” Landscape painter Emily Carr referred to stumps, which she painted with compassion, as “screamers.” From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Robert Adams

1999–2003

Object number: 2006.026.063

64. Clatsop County, Oregon. Photographs are silent but the destruction of a forest is not. Pablo Neruda remembered that his “homeland of wood . . . died in the screeching of sawmills.” Barry Lopez, in describing a stranding of whales on the Oregon coast, likened the cry of a whale to “the sound a big fir makes breaking off the stump just as the saw is pulled away. A thin screech.” Landscape painter Emily Carr referred to stumps, which she painted with compassion, as “screamers.” From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

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1999–2003

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