Source: www.newsweek.com - Monday, March 02, 2015
This just in from the Crimea. Tensions are building as conflict continues between the advancing Russian forces and the Allies. Supplies have now reached Cossack Bay, Balaclava, bringing much-needed relief to beleaguered British forces. There are reports of columns of refugees fleeing the area. The year is 1855 and, as these pictures attest, the war against the Russian land grab has taken its toll. In particular, Captain Lord Balgonie of the Grenadier Guards is suffering from the effects of fighting. Balgonie is enduring post traumatic stress disorder – although it will be many decades before that term enters common usage. The photographer was Roger Fenton and his celebrated images from the Crimea appear in a new exhibition, Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860 , which opened on 25 February at Tate Britain in London and will run until 7 June. The show is the first to focus entirely on salt prints – the earliest attempts by pioneers such as Henry Fox Talbot to capture a negative image that could then be used to produce multiple positive prints. Fox Talbot, who called his technique “photogenic drawing”, competes for the title of the father of photography with Louis Daguerre of France, who used a different method employing heavy silver plates for his daguerreotypes, which could not be re-printed. Captain Lord Balgonie in 1855, salted paper print from a paper negative. Roger Fenton/Wilson Centre for Photography The Great Exhib
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This just in from the Crimea. Tensions are building as conflict continues between the advancing Russian forces and the Allies. Supplies have now reached Cossack Bay, Balaclava, bringing much-needed relief to beleaguered British forces. There are reports of columns of refugees fleeing the area. The year is 1855 and, as these pictures attest, the war against the Russian land grab has taken its toll. In particular, Captain Lord Balgonie of the Grenadier Guards is suffering from the effects of fighting. Balgonie is enduring post traumatic stress disorder – although it will be many decades before that term enters common usage. The photographer was Roger Fenton and his celebrated images from the Crimea appear in a new exhibition, Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860 , which opened on 25 February at Tate Britain in London and will run until 7 June. The show is the first to focus entirely on salt prints – the earliest attempts by pioneers such as Henry Fox Talbot to capture a negative image that could then be used to produce multiple positive prints. Fox Talbot, who called his technique “photogenic drawing”, competes for the title of the father of photography with Louis Daguerre of France, who used a different method employing heavy silver plates for his daguerreotypes, which could not be re-printed. Captain Lord Balgonie in 1855, salted paper print from a paper negative. Roger Fenton/Wilson Centre for Photography The Great Exhibfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1DuZuL0
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