The influence of earlier photography on contemporary photographer
Roger Fenton was born on March 20, 1819 in Bury, United Kingdom. Roger Fenton nationality was Englishmen. Roger Fenton was an English pioneer photographer. Roger Fenton an English photographer best known for his pictures of the Crimean War, which were the first extensive photographic documents of a war.
“Originally a barrister, Fenton worked from the early 1850s until 1862 as a fashionable architectural, still-life, portrait, and landscape photographer. Aesthetically sensitive and technically adept, he was the most acclaimed and influential photographer in England during this period and did much to establish photography as both an art and a profession. Fenton had a strong interest in Orientalist subjects and he also made (1852) a series of photographs of Moscow and Kiev. Sponsored by the royal family, he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War. Working under appalling conditions, he made 360 photographs emphasizing the romantic aspects of an unpopular war. His few combat pictures are among the earliest photographs of battle” (encyclopedia.com).
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. He founded the Photographic Society in London and gained notoriety taking pictures of the British monarchy. Roger Fenton is a towering figure in the history of photography, the most celebrated and influential photographer in England during the medium's "golden age" of the 1850s. Fenton was an exceptionally competent photographer, renowned for his technical skill. Fenton used large format glass plate cameras and the collodion, or wet plate, process which required long exposure times – up to 20 seconds or more.
“Undaunted by the lack of commercial success for his Crimean photographs, Fenton remained driven with great energy to perfect his art and to record meaningful and artistic images. He travelled
“Originally a barrister, Fenton worked from the early 1850s until 1862 as a fashionable architectural, still-life, portrait, and landscape photographer. Aesthetically sensitive and technically adept, he was the most acclaimed and influential photographer in England during this period and did much to establish photography as both an art and a profession. Fenton had a strong interest in Orientalist subjects and he also made (1852) a series of photographs of Moscow and Kiev. Sponsored by the royal family, he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War. Working under appalling conditions, he made 360 photographs emphasizing the romantic aspects of an unpopular war. His few combat pictures are among the earliest photographs of battle” (encyclopedia.com).
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. He founded the Photographic Society in London and gained notoriety taking pictures of the British monarchy. Roger Fenton is a towering figure in the history of photography, the most celebrated and influential photographer in England during the medium's "golden age" of the 1850s. Fenton was an exceptionally competent photographer, renowned for his technical skill. Fenton used large format glass plate cameras and the collodion, or wet plate, process which required long exposure times – up to 20 seconds or more.
“Undaunted by the lack of commercial success for his Crimean photographs, Fenton remained driven with great energy to perfect his art and to record meaningful and artistic images. He travelled