Man Prepares to Toss the Caber

Man Prepares to Toss the Caber

In this image a muscular man wearing a kilt balances a giant wooden pole, or caber, while a crowd of fellow competitors, officials, and boys look on. The setting is likely the Caledonian Club Scottish Festival or Highland Games in Boston, which we know Kosti shot on assignment in 1945.

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Kosti composes the frame so that the subject, an unwieldy pole, is seen lifted but angled against the sky, communicating a vivid sense of weight and dynamics against gravity.