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The Kabul River, Jellalabad, Scene of the Disaster

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Date: 1878–80
Medium: albumen print
Culture: Ireland
Department: Photography
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 667936

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The subject of this album is the Second Anglo-Afghan War, which was fought from 1878 to 1880. John Burke was the first photographer to photograph extensively in Afghanistan and the main photographer covering that conflict. The technology of the day did not permit action shots of battles. As is usual for early conflict photography, the pictures are landscapes of the sites of momentous incidents, views of camps and civil and military infrastructure, and portraits of the soldiers and their leaders. This album includes some of the earliest photographs of Afghanistan.

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Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund
Provenance: ?–2023: (Adnan Sezer Gallery, Paris, France), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | December 4, 2023–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH