Ali Musjid and Surroundings
1879
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1879
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Ali Musjid and Surroundings is a 1879 by John Burke, a Impressionism work, depicting ireland, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This is a black-and-white photograph of a rocky hillside with a small fort perched on top. Below it, tents and soldiers stretch across the valley. Burke took this picture during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. He was one of the first photographers to work in Afghanistan, but the cameras of the 1870s were too slow for battle scenes. So he focused on the places where fighting happened—quiet landscapes that held the weight of war. To see more of his war photography, look up John Burke (Irish, 1845–1915).
