Hotchkiss v. Taft #2 places the viewer inside a lacrosse match between two of New England's most storied preparatory schools, capturing a moment that is at once athletic and deeply sociological. Buck Ellison's large-format archival pigment print, measuring 183 by 122 centimeters, renders the scene with a precision that mimics the visual grammar of institutional photography, the kind commissioned for school archives and alumni publications, yet the artist's eye transforms it into something far more searching. The players, uniformed and mid-action, become unwitting symbols of inherited privilege, performing a ritual whose codes of belonging extend well beyond the field itself. Ellison's practice is rooted in an ethnographic attentiveness to the upper-middle-class white American experience, a subject rarely examined with this degree of critical rigor in contemporary photography. Where documentary photography typically trains its lens on the marginalized or spectacular, Ellison turns toward the unmarked center of cultural power, illuminating the subtle aesthetics through which class reproduces itself. The work's monumental scale amplifies this effect, demanding that the viewer contend with these figures rather than glance past them, and the high production quality deliberately mirrors the aspirational imagery the subjects themselves would recognize and embrace. Available as number two of an edition of three, with two artist's proofs, and presented framed, this signed work from 2017 belongs to one of Ellison's most celebrated series. It represents a significant entry point into a body of work that has garnered substantial critical attention for its ability to hold beauty and critique in productive, uncomfortable tension. Collectors acquiring this piece gain not only a formally accomplished photograph but a durable conceptual provocation that deepens with time.