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Robert Glenn Ketchum

(Los Angeles, California, 1947 - )

"I like the look of clear-cut"

From the series "The tongass"

1986

Cibachrome print

18 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (47.0 x 59.2 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of Griff Hopkins

2001.49

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This image comes from Ketchum's project documenting vanishing lands in Alaska, 'The Tongass: Alaska’s Vanishing Rain Forest.' The work’s title, 'I like the look of clear-cut,' comes from a statement made by a forest supervisor at a public meeting. This body of work is credited with helping to pass the Tongass Timber Reform Bill of 1990, which protects the largest temperate rain forest in the world.

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Woods
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Contemporary Art
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