As tensions between Ukraine and Russia remain on a knife edge, we take a look back in history at Roger Fenton's landmark photographs from the Crimean War (1853-56). Widely acknowleged as one of ...

Photographs of military camps and bleak landscapes taken by Roger Fenton (1819-69) during the Crimean War were first displayed 160 years ago in an impressive, 26-venue tour across the UK.

A man beside the grave of the British Brigadier General Thomas Leigh Goldie, who was killed in action in the Crimean War. (Roger Fenton/Library of Congress) Ukrainians hold a cross in front of ...

The 19th century British photographer Roger Fenton was a master of illusion. Through his lens, the Crimean War was largely a bloodless affair, the bucolic Welsh countryside untouched by modernity ...

The pictures are taken from the Crimean War (1848-1856) and the Second Sikh War (1848) by four pioneers of photography, including Roger Fenton. He was sent to the Crimea by Prince Albert in an ...

Roger Fenton, a 36-year-old London lawyer and moderately ... "one of the most important of all English photographers." Fenton's Crimean war pictures were greatly admired for their authenticity ...

the camera of Britain's Roger Fenton captured scenes at Battle of Alma in Crimea in 1854. The Crimean War also marked the first military application of the telegraph and the first salvo of naval ...

Roger Fenton’s photographs brought the Crimean battlefields to life, while the electric telegraph enabled news to travel across the continent in hours, not weeks. War became much more immediate ...

In the confusion of the Crimean War, a bearded, solemn-eyed young Briton jogged along with the armies in a boxlike wagon marked “Photographic Van.” He was Roger Fenton, the first war ...