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"I Like the Look of a Clear-Cut"--Attributed to a Forest Supervisor at a Public Meeting

"I Like the Look of a Clear-Cut"--Attributed to a Forest Supervisor at a Public Meeting

1986
(American, 1947-)
America, 20th century
silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome) (should always remain in an 8 ply mat)
Image: 59.4 x 75.2 cm (23 3/8 x 29 5/8 in.); Paper: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.); Matted: 81.3 x 96.5 cm (32 x 38 in.)
Gift of the Advocacy Arts Foundation 1995.189
Location: not on view

Description

For more than 30 years, landscape photography has served as environmental advocacy for Ketchum. In the 1980s, Ketchum photographed Tomgass National Forest in southeastern Alaska, where harmful logging practices like the clear-cutting shown here threatened the ecosystem. Ketchum’s resulting book, The Tongass: Alaska’s Vanishing Rainforest, proved influential in passing the Tongass Timber Reform Act in 1990, which preserved more than one million acres of forest.
  • Jack B. Ketchum, Los Angeles, CA
    December 4, 1995
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 211
  • Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 14, 2011).
    Human Intervention: Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 26-October 10, 2001).
    Robert Glenn Ketchum: Landscape Photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-June 2, 1996).
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