biography
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| lived:
| (1819–69)
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| biography:
| Photographer, born in Heywood, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He was a founder and the first honorary secretary of the Photographic Society in 1853. In 1855 he went to the Crimea as the world's first accredited war-photographer, using the large cameras and wet-plates of the period to record the serving officers and men and the conditions of the campaign. It is for this work that he is best known, although little action could be depicted, and he ignored the painful side of warfare. |
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