The Kabul River, Jellalabad, Scene of the Disaster
John Burke (Irish, 1845–1915)
1878–80
- Medium
- albumen print
- Classification
- Photograph
- Culture
- Ireland
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
