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Roger Fenton was sent by Thomas Agnew of Agnew & Sons to record the Crimean War, where the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire were fighting a war against the Russian Empire. The place of the picture was named by British soldiers The Valley of Death for being under constant shelling there. [3]
James Robertson (1813–1888) was an English gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, and who became a pioneering photographer working in the Crimea and possibly India. He is noted for his Orientalist photographs and for being one of the first war photographers .
Fenton set off aboard HMS Hecla in February, landed at Balaklava on 8 March and remained there until 22 June. Fenton took Marcus Sparling as his photographic assistant, a servant known as William, and a large horse-drawn van of equipment. A French vivandiere (cantinière) wearing Zouave regimental dress, during the Crimean War in 1855.
Fenton left the Crimea in 1855, and was replaced by the partnership of James Robertson and Felice Beato. In contrast to Fenton's depiction of the dignified aspects of war, Beato and Robertson showed the destruction. [17] They photographed the fall of Sevastopol in September 1855, producing about 60 images. [18]
Roger Fenton photographs at the Library of Congress "The Last of the Light Brigade" by Rudyard Kipling at Kiplingsociety.co.uk; Casualty list at Plus.com; Retelling the Tale of the Light Brigade, Monument to the Brigade in Ukraine at Find a Grave; Trumpeter Martin Landfrey (or Lanfried) plays the charge he sounded at the Charge of the Light ...
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