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C2
Cedar 20' Diameter, Washington
1940 · Gelatin silver print
14 3/16 × 19 7/16" (36.1 × 49.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Darius Kinsey
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32
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64
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Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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American Landscapes
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Reinstallation of the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Portrait Photographs
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Darius Kinsey was an American photographer known for large-format landscape and industrial photography of the Pacific Northwest, particularly logging operations and mountain scenery in Washington and Oregon during the early twentieth century. Working with cumbersome view cameras and glass plate negatives, he documented the region's timber industry and natural topography with technical precision and compositional clarity. His archive comprises thousands of negatives that serve as a visual record of the landscape and labor practices of the era.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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