Introduction to the History of Photography

" The photographic career of Roger Fenton (1819-1869) lasted only eleven years, but during that time he became the most famous photographer in Britain. Part of the second generation of photographers who came to maturity in the 1850s—only a decade after the process was invented—Fenton strove to elevate the new medium to the status of a fine art and to establish it as a respected profession. He was the first official photographer to the British Museum and one of the founders of the Photographic Society, later named the Royal Photographic Society, an organization he hoped would help establish the medium's importance in modern life."   source: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/fenton/index.shtm    Roger Fenton Self-Portrait, February 1852 Albumen silver print from glass negative The Metropolitan Museum of Art source: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/fenton/exhibition.shtm     Roger Fenton, Seated Odalisque, 1858   Roger Fenton, D...