The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death, Roger Fenton, 1855
While little is remembered of the Crimean War—that almost three-year conflict that pitted England, France, Turkey and Sardinia-Piedmont against Russia—coverage of it radically changed the way we view war. British photographer, Roger Fenton, landed in 1855 on that far-off peninsula on the Black Sea. This is especially clear in The Valley of the Shadow of Death, which shows a cannonball-strewn gully not far from the spot immortalized in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”