The photograph Valley of the Shadow of Death by Roger Fenton came about when political opportunities became worthwhile to cash on. The image encapsulated the notions of war under sensationalist ideals. This is not to say Fenton took the image only for money. Fenton took the image to showcase the grimier side to military life. The image just happened to be placed in the supervision of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria’s supervision.
What other way did the United Kingdom have to show interest, even in the bleakest time of difficulty? Royal addresses only went to maintain interest in war so far. Newspapers wrote what was necessary descriptions of the home country’s finest armed forces. If only the public saw what the war location was like, without actually having to travel there. That moment centralized in seeing Fenton document the first-ever “publicized” war of the 19th Century. At October 1853, the Crimean War officially started. In Balaklava, Russians started gaining control of the Danubian principalities in July 1853. The awful treatment of Christian …show more content…
One version surrounded the scene with cannonballs, but the second version contained no cannonballs at all. This turned out to be Fenton wanting to get closer to the areas to edit. Fenton used the shallow foreground with the contrasts of the strong southern light to create bold geometric forms. The cannonballs seemed to lead nowhere under a bleak sky. The cannonballs showed what the troops left behind. Fenton used what the troops left behind as a visual expression of the destruction of war. These carefully staged scenes of soldiers in camp provided, at the time, the most engaging photographs. Considering Fenton tried capturing the “emptiness and unease” of the environment, he managed to bring the battlefields to life. In a sense, the Crimean War’s effect represented “the stern reality [that] stands revealed to the
What other way did the United Kingdom have to show interest, even in the bleakest time of difficulty? Royal addresses only went to maintain interest in war so far. Newspapers wrote what was necessary descriptions of the home country’s finest armed forces. If only the public saw what the war location was like, without actually having to travel there. That moment centralized in seeing Fenton document the first-ever “publicized” war of the 19th Century. At October 1853, the Crimean War officially started. In Balaklava, Russians started gaining control of the Danubian principalities in July 1853. The awful treatment of Christian …show more content…
One version surrounded the scene with cannonballs, but the second version contained no cannonballs at all. This turned out to be Fenton wanting to get closer to the areas to edit. Fenton used the shallow foreground with the contrasts of the strong southern light to create bold geometric forms. The cannonballs seemed to lead nowhere under a bleak sky. The cannonballs showed what the troops left behind. Fenton used what the troops left behind as a visual expression of the destruction of war. These carefully staged scenes of soldiers in camp provided, at the time, the most engaging photographs. Considering Fenton tried capturing the “emptiness and unease” of the environment, he managed to bring the battlefields to life. In a sense, the Crimean War’s effect represented “the stern reality [that] stands revealed to the