This Day in History: 1819-03-28

Roger Fenton, famed 19th century photographer, is born on this day in 1819.  Fenton was a lawyer and studio artist who, in 1851,  saw his first exhibit of photographs.  He traveled to Paris where he learned the waxed paper calotype process of William Henry Fox Talbot, modified by Gustave Le Gray. In 1852 his photos of British landscapes and architecture were exhibited. Fenton also helped organize the Royal Photographic Society in 1853. That same year  he traveled to the front lines of the Crimean War and took a series of photos like the one above.