Accession Number
2012/2.84

Title
Cane Train, Cuba

Artist(s)
Dmitri Baltermants

Artist Nationality
Russian (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
circa 1970s

Medium & Support
gelatin silver print on paper

Dimensions
16 in x 20 in (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Agah, Class of 1989 (BBA)

Subject matter
In this photograph, a young mustachioed man stands just right of center as he gazes toward the left out of the picture plane. With his right hand he appears to signal toward train cars full of sugar cane.  A fellow worker stands with his back to the viewer in the distance on the right-hand side of the image. The piled sugar cane appears almost to burst out of the cage-like walls of the train cars that can barely, which can barely contain their cargo.  The focus of the camera seems to be on the cane, as it is in crisp focus, whereas the man in the foreground is slightly blurred. 

Physical Description
A man in the center foreground looks toward the lower-left corner of the photograph as he points to a train filled with wooden sticks.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
agriculture
laborers
men (male humans)
sugarcane (material)
trains (vehicle groupings)
wood (plant material)