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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Roger Fenton — Officers on the Lookout at Cathcart's Hill
Roger Fenton

Officers on the Lookout at Cathcart's Hill

1855

Among the first photojournalistic images of warfare, Fenton's Crimean War photograph shows soldiers in a moment of tense observation, pioneering the documentation of military conflict through photography.

Medium
salted paper print from wet collodion negative

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