Felice (Felix) Beato: War Photographer 150 Years Ago

[ClaremontPhoto]

Until today I had never heard of Felice Beato.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Beato

I like his 1857 photo of post-battle Lucknow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Secundra_Bagh_after_Indian_Mutiny.jpg

 

[Roger Hicks]

Don't forget Roger Fenton at the Crimea too

Cheers,

R.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Thank you. I had forgotten Roger Fenton.

I know he was photographing to get support for an unpopular war (sounds familiar) and he would not photograph casualties.

But his iconic photo of the road with hundreds of canon balls says it all.

 

[MickH]

Matthew Brady, the American Civil War?

On another tack, there was a TV series on the BBC recently "The Edwardians In Colour" featuring the photographs collected by Albert Kahn for his project "The Archive of the Planet"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/albert-kahn.shtml

Here's a slideshow of some of the best:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Slideshow/slideshowContentFrameFragXL.jhtml?xml=/arts/slideshows/edwardians/pixedwardians.xml

I'd never heard of him, or any of the photographers before but they have created some terrific images.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

MickH:


I just saw some of those photos, thank you, the Stéphane Passet photo of the prisoner in a box is fantastic photojournalism.

I've also read the story behind the photo and hope that the BBC series comes to my cable TV BBC Prime or People and Arts sometime.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Hey I'm getting into these old photographers.

How about Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii?

I first saw his photos in a book about 25 years ago and remember them clearly.

He made color photos with monochrome film by photographing each scene three times using three different color filters and then assembled the mono negatives somehow and made color prints.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokudin-Gorskii

 

[xayraa33]

I started a thread about Beato last April.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41035

 

[xayraa33]

Something we can learn from Mr. Beato to cure GAS.
the Wiki write up mentions that he bought is first and only lens in Paris in 1851.
He certainly put that one and only lens to good use.

 

[xayraa33]

Alexander Gardner was an other interesting 19th century photographer.

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=2055

 

[dadsm3]

Fascinating stuff, gentlemen.