War photographer Roger Fenton's pictures sent back to Britain from the Crimea were the first time the public were kept informed of the day-to-day realities of war. As tensions between Ukraine and ...

More than any other medium, photojournalism has shaped our perception of war. When Roger Fenton was dispatched in 1855 to photograph the Crimean War, the world’s eyes began to open to the horrors of ...

Catalog of the exhibition held Oct. 17, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Feb. 1, 2005-April 24, 2005 at the J. Paul Getty Museum ...

In the decades following photography’s invention, portrait photographers were routinely judged on their ability to produce objective likenesses of their sitters. Many people believed that such a ...

Victorian photographer Roger Fenton, the subject of an outstanding retrospective at the Getty, was not an especially flamboyant figure. The grandson of a wealthy Manchester, England, industrialist, he ...