Crimean War 1854-56 Q71611
Summary
Crimean War 1854-56
Group of three Croat chiefs.
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.
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Tags
crimean war photographs by roger fenton
uk government artistic works
great britain
crimean war
crimea
russia
russian empire
Date
1854
in collections
Source
Imperial War Museums
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain