Roger Fenton was, in the words of Mark Haworth-Booth (the V&A's curator of photography) 'the Ian Botham of photography'.

A pioneering photographer who helped establish photography as an art form, Fenton was also one of the first to document the brutality of war through this then-fledgling medium. When Fenton arrived in the Crimea in March 1855, the war that had been raging for 12 months and the major battles of the campaign had already been fought. For Fenton, undertaking a photographic trip to the Crimea posed a number of practical and logistical problems, especially in 1854 when the physical requirements of the wet collodion process meant that every negative had to be carefully prepared on the spot. One of Roger Fenton’s most famous photographs – an eerily empty valley in the Crimea strewn with cannonballs – brilliantly captured the aftermath of the charge of the heavy brigade at Balaclava and the brutality of the Crimean War. Jan 18, 2017 - Explore adrrienn's board "Roger Fenton" on Pinterest.

War photographer Roger Fenton's pictures sent back to Britain from the Crimea were the first time the public were kept informed of the day-to-day realities of war.
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THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, CRIMEA, UKRAINE 1855 PHOTO BY ROGER FENTON.

In 1855, Roger Fenton (1819 69) traveled to the war-torn Crimea to capture scenes of the conflict and the soldiers involved. Context: Fenton's photographic campaign in the Crimea and his letters back home.
The photo is titled, “Valley of Shadow of Death.” REALITY: Roger Fenton took two photographs of … REPRESENTATION: Taken during the Crimean War in 1855, Roger Fenton’s photograph of cannonballs scattered across a Crimean battlefield is one of the earliest and most famous images of war. 2012.161 Publication: Other Collections: Notes: Probably taken by Marcus Sparling, Fenton's assistant. The tone of the letters is noteworthy.

The images he took covering the Crimean War, along with the letters he wrote to his family and the Manchester print-seller Thomas Agnew (who financed this expedition), are rich with explicit and implicit information documenting the conflict.

He was an all-rounder in the early decades of photography; he was a still life, architectural and landscape photographer, the British Museum's first official photographer, principal founder of the Photographic Society of London and royal portrait photographer. Maker: Roger Fenton (1819-1869) Born: UK Active: Russia/Crimea/UK Medium: gelatin silver print Size: 8 x 10 Location: Crimea Object No.