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Roger Fenton knew his art, subjects and audiences. Many of his landscapes and still-lives were praised for their beauty, suggesting a relationship between photography and at least the profound goals of the Fine Arts.[i] That was also the case with how some responded to his Crimean War photographs. The Journal’s contributor concluded that “many of the pictures are excellent as photographs,” and appreciation of craftsmanship, and “some are very beautiful,” an appreciation of their aesthetics. Among those was No. 277, “A View of Balaklava from the Top of Guards Hill.”

Medium: photographic print : salted paper ; 26.4 x 36.4 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location: PH - Fenton (R.), no. 277 (A size) [P&P], Library of Congress

Source Collection: Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869. Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id: cph 3g09353 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g09353

Library of Congress Control Number: 2002695369

Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-9353 (color film copy transparency)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

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[i] For helpful discussions of Fenton’s photography and mid-Victorian Fine Arts, please see Morna O’Neill, “Making Art in the Age of Industry: Paintings by George Lance and Photographs by Roger Fenton,” Victorian Studies 62:2 (2020), 230-243 and Lindsay Smith, “Roger Fenton’s Nature More: The Pull of Sculpture,” History of Photography 37:4 (November 2013), 397-411.