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Roger Fenton — The Railway Street at Balaklava
Roger Fenton

The Railway Street at Balaklava

1855

Infrastructure development in a war zone is documented through Fenton's lens, showing how photography could capture both the mundane and historically significant aspects of conflict.

Medium
Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856)

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