Artist's Biography
Roger Fenton was England’s most celebrated photographer during the 1850s. During a decade of work he mastered every photographic genre he attempted: architectural photography, landscape, portraiture, still life, reportage, and tableau vivant. His photographs combine the clarity of a newly modern world with the poetry of a Romantic sensibility. In 1855 he was commissioned to document the Crimean War, a labor intensive ordeal as well as a major moment in the history of documentary and war photography. His haunting images of Balaklava are some of the most important pieces of photographic documentation of the 19th century.

Roger Fenton