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 ...

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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 ...