AA-2026-1A224D
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Someone decided in the 1950s that the best way to move timber out of difficult terrain was to cut a wide swath through the forest and call it progress. The road curves through dense coniferous woodland like a scar, freshly graded and raw, the kind of engineering project that looked rational on a map and inevitable to the men running the equipment. A blue river threads through the valley below, still clean, still present—for now. The stumbled landscape in the foreground shows what happens when you clear-cut on a slope and then photograph it in color film, which was new enough then that people still believed color photography would make things look better, more real, more justified. It did the opposite.
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Logging road through boreal forest, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-1A224D. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/logging-road-through-boreal-forest-1950s.
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