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...confusion of the Crimean War, a bearded, solemn-eyed young Briton jogged along with the armies in a boxlike wagon marked "Photographic Van." He was Roger Fenton, the first war photographer in history, and he succeeded in catching the authentic mood of Crimea (see opposite page) with the same craftsman's touch that Mathew Brady displayed later in the U.S. Civil War. Last week many a Briton was discovering Fenton's genius in a photographic supplement of The Cornhill, literary quarterly founded by William Makepeace Thackeray...
...Fenton carted his equipment ashore in the Crimea in March 1855, set about photographing the war by starting with the jumble of ships at the British harbor base of Cossack Bay, Balaklava. venton's slow, bulky camera could catch no British armies in action, but it could catch such mood shots as "A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery," the shallow "Valley of Death," littered with cannonballs after the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the threatening magnificence of the proud syth Regiment drawn up on parade with its tents in the background. In the leisurely pace...
...Fenton's technical problems were horrendous. The dry-plate had yet to be invented and he had to coat his plates with sensitized solution, dash outside and expose them before they had time to dry. The developing water was "so hot that I can hardly bear my hands...
...replied that he thought it was too early to write anything." Sometime after the story appeared demanded that Miss Labenow drop all her CRIMSON activities. Radcliffe gave several reasons. President Jordan said that the story contained inaccuracies--and this is probably true. But Miss Projansky told John Fenton of the New York Times: "Miss Labenow has gone ahead and had stories printed in the CRIMSON which were contrary to the best interests of Radcliffe...
...also read the following statement, given to the CRIMSON yesterday by John Fenton, by-lined reporter for the Times...