Roger Fenton 1862, 15 December Roger Fenton mentioned in an article on "American Photographs" examining war photography
Journal page Google Books The Photographic Journal being the Journal of the Photographic Society, 15 December 1862, No. 128, p.185
Mr. Fenton was, probably, the first photographer who ever pitched his camera-stand under fire; but Mr. Simpson was out before him in the Crimea, and it is no disparagement to the former to say that the scenes in the trenches were much more interesting than the likenesses or groups or other works of the photographer, though they were more ideal or less actual. It was considered something remarkable when Mr. Fenton succeeded in fixing on his plate the puff of smoke from a distant gun.
