Cavalry Facing Right, Ropsha
August 19, 1907
A panoramic photograph on gelatin silver printing-out paper that records a line of cavalrymen on horseback, made to document and convey the presence and organization of troops in the landscape.
The view is dominated by a wide horizontal sweep: riders and horses punctuate an open field beneath a vast sky, their forms receding into the distance and giving the scene a quiet, taut sense of readiness.
As an early 20th-century military photograph it bridges documentary and pictorial practices, using panoramic composition and silver printing to preserve the material reality of mounted units just before modern warfare transformed them.
Medium
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
Dimensions
3 7/16 × 11 1/4" (8.7 × 28.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Howard Stein
Accession
483.2011.37
Palette
Exhibitions
