Fenton Crimean War Collection

Roger Fenton's Crimean War photos represent the earliest organized event to document a war through photography. Fenton, who spent almost 4 months in the Crimea (between march 8 to June 26, 1855), made 360 photographs under really extremely conditions. Even though these photographs capture lots of participants and the landscape of the war, there are no actual combat photographs.

            The library of the congress bought 263 of Fenton’s works and albumen prints from his grandniece, Frances M. Fenton. Including his most known photograph, “valley of the shadow od death”. This group of photos is really unique because they reflect an arrangement imposed by Fenton. It is possible that this collection is composed of a set of Works kept and annotated by the only Roger Fenton.