Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Great Black and White Photographers, Part 2

Roger Fenton

Biography: Roger Fenton
Born in 1819, in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire, England, and died on August 8th, 1868 in London. Fenton studied painting, and then Law. During a trip in 1851, he visited Gustave Le Gray the photographer, and he returned to London inspired to do photography. With his connections in the government as the first honorary secretary of the Royal Photographic Society, he became the official photographer of the Crimean War. He took pictures documenting the Crimean War, with his assistant Marcus Sparling. After he returned to England after the war, he retired from photography and pursued Law.

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