1855 was the year of the first public exhibitions of what we now would call “war photography,” or “war photojournalism.” The first of the series formally opened on 20 September at the Water Colour Society in Pall Mall, London’s East End, taking advantage of public interest in the Crimean War, the expressed patronage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and curiosity about the still relatively new art, or science of photography. There was debate at the time about to which photography belonged, art or science. Visitors observed, read about and discussed over three hundred “Photographic Pictures taken in The Crimea,” by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), a well-known photographer, and his assistant, “during the spring and summer of the present year” (Exhibition of the Photographic Pictures taken in The Crimea, passim). Sometimes referred to as the “Photographic Images from the Seat of War in the Crimea,” they went on public display in several venues in major British cities as the War and the above controversies continued to rage.