"Roger Fenton's Crimean War photo series is the first historic attempt to portray war campaign with the help of new magic photo media, then still in its infancy".
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| "The Artist's Van". LC-USZC4-9240 |
"Fenton spend March-June 1855 in Crimea as an official campaign photographer, payed by the British government, recording participants and landscapes for posterity. These records never managed to capture battles, explosions, devastations, wounds, blood and tears, partly due to the limitations of photographic techniques of the period, but also because of official wish to glamorize the war and shift public attention away from government and military mismanagement, for which Crimean campaign became infamously known".
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| "The Valley of the Shadow of Death". LC-USZC4-9217. |
A landmark in the history of photography.
The article and many of the original pictures are here.
