Area Clearcut Prior to 1980 Eruption Surrounded by Downed Trees – Clearwater Creek Valley – 9 Miles East of Mount Saint Helens, Washington
1981, printed 1983
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 45.09 × 55.88 cm (17 3/4 × 22 in.) sheet: 50.8 × 60.96 cm (20 × 24 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2001.67.79
Art Historical Context
Frank Gohlke's *Area Clearcut Prior to 0 Eruption Surrounded by Downed Trees – Clear Creek Valley – 9 Miles East of Mount Saint Helens, Washington (1981, printed 3) captures the dramatic aftermath of the devastating May 18, 1980, eruption of St. Helens, one of the most powerful volcanic events in U.S. history. Taken just a year later in the Clearwater Creek Valley, miles east of the volcano the gelatin silver print starkly juxtaposes a pre-eruption clearcut logging area—human intervention laid bare—with the chaotic sprawl of trees felled by the blast's pyroclastic flows. This 17¾ × 22-inch ima...