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Roger Fenton

1819 - 1869

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Roger Fenton (28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers. Fenton was born into a Lancashire merchant family. After graduating from London with an arts degree, he became interested in painting. After seeing examples of the new technology of photography at the Great Exhibition in 1851, he became keenly interested in this new technique. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Fenton is the 32nd most popular photographer (down from 27th in 2019), the 1,759th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,345th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Roger Fenton ranks 32 out of 148. Before him are Irving Penn, André Kertész, Carl Van Vechten, Nan Goldin, Guillermo Kahlo, and Wilhelm Brasse. After him are Étienne Carjat, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sophie Calle, Napoleon Sarony, and Peter Lindbergh.

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Among people born in 1819, Roger Fenton ranks 38. Before him are Abner Doubleday, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Christopher Latham Sholes, Felice Orsini, and William A. Wheeler. After him are Wilhelm Marr, Thomas A. Hendricks, Franz Abt, Eunice Newton Foote, Estanislao Figueras, and Alfred Escher. Among people deceased in 1869, Roger Fenton ranks 25. Before him are Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Loewe, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Carl Reichenbach, and John A. Roebling. After him are Afzal-ud-Daulah, Jean René Constant Quoy, Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Fenton ranks 1,759 out of 8,785. Before him are Elizabeth Hurley (1965), George Meredith (1828), P. F. Strawson (1919), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), Vidal Sassoon (1928), and Jeffrey Archer (1940). After him are James Bruce (1730), Donald Crisp (1882), George Peacock (1791), John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (1934), Allan Clarke (1946), and Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among photographers born in United Kingdom, Roger Fenton ranks 2. Before him are Eadweard Muybridge (1830). After him are David Bailey (1938), Cecil Beaton (1904), Alexander Gardner (1821), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), Allan Warren (1948), and Mick Rock (1948).

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