In 1855, Roger Fenton (1819-69) traveled to the war-torn Crimea to capture scenes of the conflict and the soldiers involved.
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Today, many of his images, like The Valley of the Shadow of Death, showing a dirt road scattered with cannonballs, are considered to be among most iconic Photographs of war.
A pioneering photographer who helped establish photography as an art form, Fenton was also one of the first to document the brutality of war through this then-fledgling medium.
In 1855, Roger Fenton (1819-69) traveled to the war-torn Crimea to capture scenes of the conflict and the soldiers involved