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Public domain photograph by Roger Fenton, 19th-century early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Roger Fenton was a British photographer, born in 1819 in Crimsworth, England. He is considered one of the first war photographers, known for his photographs of the Crimean War (1853-1856), which he covered as a photographer for the British government. He is considered one of the first photographers to document the realities of war, his photographs were groundbreaking for their time, showing the human cost of war, the suffering of soldiers, and the destruction of war. His photographs of the Crimean War are considered an important record of the conflict.
Fenton was also a skilled landscape photographer, and he made many photographs of the British countryside and architecture. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Photographic Society, and he was also an important figure in the development of photography as an art form in the 19th century. Fenton died in 1869 in London.
Roger Fenton (1819–1869), English photographer best known for his pictures of the Crimean War, which were the first extensive photographic documents of a war. Fenton studied painting and then law. Following a trip in 1851 to Paris, where he probably visited with the photographer Gustave Le Gray, he returned to England and was inspired to pursue photography. In the winter of 1855 his governmental connections as the founder (1853) and first honorary secretary of the Royal Photographic Society helped him gain an appointment as official photographer of the Crimean War.