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October 2004. 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. Before taking up the camera, he studied law in London and painting in Paris.
Roger Fenton (28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers. Fenton was born into a Lancashire merchant family. After graduating from London with an arts degree, he became interested in painting.
Roger Fenton (born 1819, Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire, England—died August 8, 1869, London) was an English photographer best known for his pictures of the Crimean War, which were the first extensive photographic documents of a war. Roger Fenton: A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery.
Roger Fenton's Crimean War photographs represent one of the earliest systematic attempts to document a war through the medium of photography. Fenton, who spent fewer than four months in the Crimea (March 8 to June 26, 1855), produced 360 photographs under extremely trying conditions.
About. Though best known for his photographs of the Crimean War, Roger Fenton was one of the most accomplished landscape and architectural photographers of his time. Fenton was born into an affluent family near Manchester, England, in 1819 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University College in London in 1840.
