With the great historical crossroads Crimea suddenly very much back in the news - as Russian troops tighten his hold on the peninsula of Ukraine, and the United States and its allies threaten to "isolate" Russia on the growing crisis - LIFE.com have a look back long time, another conflict in the region through a unique lens: namelythat of the first war photography.
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The 1850s Crimean War, you could say that after all, it was where was born the genre, with British photographers such as Roger Fenton (1819-1869) and James Robertson (1813-1888) and Britain's Italian Felice Beato (1832-1909) by doing what many historians consider the first photographs of one major military conflict. Your photos could lack the drama frequently brutal of modern war photography, but however serve as compelling documentation of the gaze and, in a sense, the logistics of the mid-19th century war. Within a few years, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner and others would document the American Civil war most thoroughly and graphically that Fenton, Robertson, Beato, or any other managed in the Crimea - a clear indication of how quickly photography took root as a critical method of story.
Indeed, some readers will recall epic three parts Opinionator column Errol Morris of the New York Times several years ago, when the filmmaker and essayist delved into two Roger Fenton photographs individuals of the Crimean War. If you are not familiar with it, read the whole thing. It is amazing. This is one of the photos of Fenton Morris examined - with his normally obsessive, ironic and deeply intelligent eye.
SSPL/Getty ImagesThe Valley of the shadow of death, the war of Crimea (1853-1856), photographed by Roger Fenton.
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