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 ...

Years before the U.S. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady took his famous photos of the Antietam battlefield, the camera of Britain's Roger Fenton captured scenes at Battle of Alma in Crimea in 1854.

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 ...