Bulldozed slash, Tillamook County, Oregon
1980
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 18 x 23.3 cm (7 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.) overall: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2006.133.5
Art Historical Context
In Robert Adams' *Bulldozed slash, Tillamook County,* (1980), a stark gelatin silver print captures the aftermath of human intervention in the Pacific Northwest landscape. The image, measuring 18 x 23.3 cm, depicts a freshly bulldozed clearing—likely a "slash" from logging operations—in Oregon's Tillamook County a region long shaped by timber industry practices and forest regeneration efforts following devastating wildfires in the 193s and 1940s. Adams, a pivotal figure in the New Topographics movement of the 1970s, approached such scenes with unflinching objectivity, eschewing romanticism to...
About the Artist
Robert Adams · 1900–1900
Robert Adams, born Robert Hickman Adams on May 8, 1937, in Orange, New Jersey, grew up amid frequent relocations that shaped his deep affinity for the American landscape—from New Jersey to Madison, Wisconsin, and finally to Wheat Ridge, Colorado, in 1952.) Contracting polio at age 12, he recovered but retained a sensitivity to the environment that fueled his later work. After earning a B.A. in Eng...