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Marcus Sparling seated on Fenton's photographic van, Crimea, 1855. It is likely that in autumn 1854, as the Crimean War grabbed the attention of the British public, that some powerful friends and patrons – among them Prince Albert and Duke of Newcastle , Secretary of State for War – urged Fenton to go to the Crimea to record events.
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 .
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]
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 ...
The Crimean War 1854 - 1856: Roger Fenton: A morning conference for the allied commanders Lord Raglan, Omar Pasha and Marshal Pelissier. ... Crimea, Ukraine ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long vowed to end Russia's occupation of Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014. FIFA faces backlash over 'unacceptable' map of Ukraine that appeared to ...
In 1855 Felice Beato and Robertson travelled to Balaklava, Crimea, where they took over reportage of the Crimean War following Roger Fenton's departure. Beato was ostensibly Robertson's assistant, [ 10 ] however, the unpredictable conditions of a war zone forced Beato to assume a more active role.
Parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine were also taken by Moscow-backed forces in 2014 and have been embattled during the course of the current war, unlike Crimea. Ukraine has ...