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Extraordinary Contorted "Marble Cake" Moraine of Susitna Glacier, Central Alaska
1958 · Photograph
27 5/8 × 36" (70.0 × 91.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Bradford Washburn
American, 1910
Cambridge, United States
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10
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23
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American Landscapes
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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The Photographer and the American Landscape
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1963
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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Bradford Washburn was an American photographer and mountaineer whose large-format color photographs documented alpine landscapes and glacial systems with scientific precision. Working primarily in the mid-twentieth century, he combined technical mastery of color film with expeditionary fieldwork across Alaska, the Canadian Rockies, and the American West. His images served both as art objects and as cartographic records, establishing photography as a tool for geological and geographical study. Washburn's archive remains foundational to understanding postwar landscape documentation.
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