Logging Days: Recent Donations
of Darius Kinsey Photographs

December 13, 2008 to February 15, 2009

Whatcom Museum, 1892 Old City Hall Building

Through his fifty-year career in photography, Darius Kinsey (1869-1945) created images that captured the character of the early Northwest. More than a simple documentary record, the Kinsey aesthetic communicates the monumental interaction between men, machinery, and mammoth trees. Kinsey used large format cameras that preserved detail down to the grain of tree bark, the sheen off a locomotive, and the grime on a logger’s shirt. A new exhibition opening May 2, 2008 in the Whatcom Museum’s Rotunda Room, Logging Days: Recent Donations of Darius Kinsey Photographs, unveils approximately forty enlargements of Kinsey photographs, most relating to logging in northwest Washington and most being exhibited for the first time.

 

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