Roger Phenton ( English Roger Fenton ; March 20, 1819 , Crimble Hall, Lancashire - August 8, 1869 , Potters Bar , Hertfordshire ) is one of the pioneers of British photography and the first official military photographer.
| Roger fenton | |
|---|---|
| Roger fenton | |
 | |
| Date of Birth | March 20, 1819 |
| Place of Birth | Crimele Hall, Lancashire |
| Date of death | August 8, 1869 (50 years) |
| Place of death | Potters Bar, Hertfordshire |
| Citizenship |  Great Britain |
| Occupation | photographer |
Content
Biography
Roger Fenton’s grandfather was a rich cotton producer and banker, and his father was a banker and member of parliament. Roger was the fourth of seven children from his father's first marriage.
In 1838, Fenton entered University College London, graduating in 1840 with a bachelor of arts degree, studying English, mathematics, literature and logic.
In 1841, he began studying law at University College, but was not qualified as a lawyer until 1847 because he became an artist.
In 1842 he arrived in Paris, where he studied painting in the studio of Paul Delaroche , studied with M. Drolling .
In 1843, in Yorkshire, Fenton married Grace Elizabeth Maynard.
By 1847, Fenton returned to London, where he continued to study painting and was under the tutelage of artist Charles Lucy, who became his friend and with whom, beginning in 1850, he served on the board of directors of the North London School of Drawing and Modeling.
In 1849, 1850 and 1851, he exhibited his paintings at the annual exhibitions of the Royal Academy.
In 1851, he visited the exhibition in Hyde Park in London and was amazed at the photographic art presented at it. He then visited Paris to study the process of waxing paper, invented by Gustave le Gre.
In 1852, Fenton presented his first photographs in England, taken in Kiev, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In 1852, Fenton became the founder and secretary of the Royal Photographic Society under the patronage of Prince Albert [1] [2] .
Photos of the Crimean War by Roger Fenton are considered one of the first examples of military photojournalism. A year before Fenton appeared in the Crimea, the Romanian-Hungarian photographer Karol Shatmari worked at the same military campaign - https://web.archive.org/web/2010716064447/http://www.mnir.ro/publicat/anuar/10 /ionescu.html ). Creating photographs as documents of the epoch, Fenton and Shatmari did not set as their goal the representation of the horrors of war — in part, therefore, these images are idyllic in nature [3] .
In 1858, Fenton became interested in Oriental motifs and the depiction of landscapes and architecture of Great Britain. In 1862, he stopped photography. He died in 1869.
For his contribution to photography (especially for photos from the Crimean War), Fenton was included in the list of 100 photographers who changed the world [4] .
Photo
Cavalry camp near Balaclava camp
General Brown
Dragoons
Death Valley
Literature
- Baldwin Gordon, Malcolm Daniel, and Sarah Greenough. All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860. Exhibition catalog. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004
- Vasilyeva E. Photography and the phenomenology of the tragic: the idea of due and the figure of responsibility // Bulletin of St. Petersburg State University. Series 15., 2015, vol. 1, s. 26-52
Links
- Roger Fenton
- Daniel, Malcolm. “Roger Fenton (1819–1869).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000
- Correspondence of Roger Fenton Roger Fenton's Letters from Crimea