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Louisiana Pacific, Ketchikan (from the series The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest)
Louisiana Pacific, Ketchikan (from the series The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest)
Louisiana Pacific, Ketchikan (from the series The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest)

Louisiana Pacific, Ketchikan (from the series The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest)

Artist (American, born 1947)
Date1986 (printed 2010)
Mediumsilver-dye bleach print
DimensionsImage: 21 7/8 × 27 11/16 in. (55.6 × 70.3 cm)
Support: 23 7/8 × 29 7/8 in. (60.6 × 75.9 cm)
Mat: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Robert Glenn Ketchum, 2011
Object number2011.28.1
DescriptionWater with large mass of logs floating in foreground alongside a yellow log loader. Ship, floating logs, and Louisiana Pacific factory emitting steam or smoke span the background.
Text Entries
This dynamic composition of diagonal lines and clouds of smoke or steam shows an industrial logging operation in Ketchikan, Alaska. The artist photographed extensively in southeastern Alaska in the 1980s, hoping to influence the United States Congress to pass legislation to protect the Tongass rainforest, now the largest national forest in the country at around 17 million acres, administered by Forest Services in Ketchikan.
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