Roger Fenton’s pioneering war photography
According to Chris Albury at Cirencester auctioneer Dominic Winter, an “an absolutely A1 example” of Roger Fenton’s (1819-69) famous photo The Valley of the Shadow of Death would make “£50,000-plus at auction, easy peasy”.
So how can collectors on lower budgets own something by the man regarded as the first real war pho…