"Roger Fenton: the First Great War Photographer" Topic

Robert Capa, the archetypical modern war photographer, once famously declared, "If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough." Good advice, though it didn't apply to Roger Fenton, the godfather of the genre, who documented the Crimean War in 1855. That's not just because he had to haul large cameras and unwieldy glass plate negatives (since fast Leica rangefinders had yet to be invented), but also because he shied away from photographing subjects that are now common: As a proper English gentleman, he wouldn't photograph the corpses of soldiers, because doing so was unseemly.

Relying on long exposures made it impossible for Mr. Fenton to stop action and capture actual battles. But he did give the British public a view of the war by portraying the lives of British enlisted men and officers, as well as showing the armaments, supply routes and the many, many horses that were the critical military transportation technology of the day. He lived among the troops and traveled in a photo truck that doubled as his darkroom while photographing Russia's defeat by an alliance that included Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire.

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I've seen some of his stuff in museums. Really quite remarkable.

here they all are:
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