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ASSIGNMENT#1
19th Century Photographers:
1. ROGER FENTON: (1819-1869)
Being one of the first war photos, British photographer Roger Fenton is well-known.
Fenton came from a commercial family in Lancashire. He earned an arts degree from
London and after being interested in painting and early examples of photography during
The Great Exhibition in 1851, he later developed a strong interest in photography. He
started showing his own pictures in a year. He rose to prominence as a photographer in
Britain and played a crucial role in the organisation of the Photographic Society (later the
Royal Photographic Society). He was hired in 1854 to produce photos of the Crimean
War's last battles. He was one of a select group of photographers who were given the
assignment to record events taking place in Crimea. Fenton was the best architectural
photographer. He set himself the task of photographing the most important churches and
abbeys in Great Britain and, working most frequently in a format as large as 14 x 18
inches, combined perfect technique with an uncanny knack for picking the exact angle
and lighting conditions that would best render the minute details of architecture, convey a
sense of monumentality, and infuse his images with a Romantic spirit.
2. MATHEW BRADY: (1823-1896)
The well-known American photographer Mathew Brady, also known as Mathew B.
Brady, was well-known for his portraits of politicians and his images of the American
Civil War. Brady made daguerreotype cases and frames after receiving training from the
artists William Page and Samuel F.B. Morse, who was also an inventor. Brady later
established his first daguerreotype studio in New York City. After much publicity
surrounding the opening of his first portrait studio in New York, Brady started carrying
out his intention to shoot as many historical figures as he could, including Daniel
Webster, Edgar Allan Poe, and James Fenimore Cooper, in 1845. A Gallery of Illustrious
Americans, an album of lithographs Brady created based on his daguerreotypes,
including many of his portraits and brought him and his studios prominence both
domestically and overseas.
3. JULIA MARGARET CAMERON: (1815-1879)
Julia Margaret Cameron, a British photographer, was one of the most important portrait
photographers of the 19th century. She is renowned for her tender portraits of men,
women, and children as well as for her close-ups in soft focus of famous Victorians. She
is renowned for drawing characters from literature, Christianity, and mythology. After
expressing a keen interest in photography for a considerable amount of time, Cameron
didn't begin capturing photographs until she was 48 years old and her daughter gave her a
camera. She produced a substantial collection of work that encapsulated the brilliance,
purity, and beauty of the men, women, and children who visited her Freshwater studio in
a short amount of time. Also, she created original allegorical images that drew inspiration
from the theatre, tableaux vivants, Italian painters of the 15th century, as well as the
creations of her contemporaries in the arts. She had a limited but successful photography
career, capturing roughly 900 images over a 12-year period.