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Series Title: Afghanistan, February 1880

The Amir Yakub Khan. The First Meeting with Major Cavagnari and Mr. Jenkins, 7 Miles from Safed Sang

1878–80

John Burke

(Irish, 1845–1915)
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Culture
Ireland
Medium
albumen print
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund 2024.6.pp
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This album includes some of the earliest photographs of Afghanistan.

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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.
A horizontally oriented muted sepia photograph depicts dozens of uniformed cavalrymen in white helmets forming a line along a middle-ground ridge. A single rider on a white horse stands prominently near the front. In the lower left, riders descend a dirt path away from the viewer. Rugged, hazy hills rise into a range of mountains under a pale sky, emphasizing the vast, desolate terrain surrounding the orderly military formation.

The Amir Yakub Khan. The First Meeting with Major Cavagnari and Mr. Jenkins, 7 Miles from Safed Sang

1878–80

John Burke

(Irish, 1845–1915)
Ireland

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