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Roger Fenton | |
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 Fenton, Self-portrait | |
| Born | 28 March 1819 Heywood, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 8 August 1869 (aged 50) Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England |
| Education | University of London; Charles Lucy, Paris |
| Known for | Photographer and painter |
| Spouse | Grace Elizabeth Maynard |
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. After seeing examples of the new technology of photography at the Great Exhibition in 1851, he became keenly interested in this new technique. Within a year, he began exhibiting his own photographs.
He became a leading British photographer and was instrumental in founding the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society). In 1854, he was commissioned to document events occurring in Crimea, where he became one of a small group of photographers to produce images of the final stages of the Crimean War.