Photographer Richard Barnes originally photographed the Unabomber cabin on assignment for the New York Times magazine in 1998. At that time the cabin was in a warehouse in California, where it was being stored as evidence. Wanting to juxtapose the image he refers to as the “incarcerated cabin” with an image of the cabin’s wooded  setting, Barnes traveled to Lincoln to photograph the site where the cabin had stood. Barnes’ photographs, in addition to others he took of the Kaczynski cabin, have been exhibited around the country and abroad.

Art critic Dominique Nahas, commenting on these two photographs, wrote: “In Unabomber Cabin, Sacramento CA., Barnes gives us a view of the cabin slightly turned at an angle between two pillars, dwarfed in a cavernous antiseptic warehouse, sequestered out of society’s way. In Unabomber Cabin, Lincoln MT., the negative space of the cabin’s former presence, like a cancer-cell cut out from Nature’s body, speaks volumes about the legacy of rugged American frontierism gone awry.”