The Kabul River, Jellalabad, Scene of the Disaster
1879
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1879
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Kabul River, Jellalabad, Scene of the Disaster is a 1879 by John Burke, a Impressionism work, depicting ireland, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a wide, shallow river cutting through rocky hills under a pale sky. This photo was taken during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, but it doesn’t show fighting. Early cameras couldn’t catch fast action, so photographers like Burke documented the places where battles happened. The quiet landscape makes the past feel closer. To see more war photography from this time, look up John Burke (Irish, 1845–1915).
