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Description: | A photograph of the Lavra Monastery overlooking the River Dneiper in the Ukraine, taken by Roger Fenton (1819-1869) in 1852. This photograph was taken in Kiev. Two small boats are beached on the bank of the River Dneiper in the foreground. On the far bank is the Pecherska Lavra Monastery, also known as the Monastery of the Caves. Founded in the eleventh century, it is the oldest monastery in Russia. In 1852 Roger Fenton accompanied his friend Charles Vignoles, an engineer, on a trip to Russia. Vignoles was building a suspension bridge across the River Dneiper. Fenton was at the beginning of his photographic career and returned with salted-paper print views of Kiev, Moscow and St Petersburg. Roger Fenton was a founding member of the Royal Photographic Society and one of the most influential photographers of the 1850s. He is best known as one of the first war photographers, from his work in the Crimea in 1855. However, he also took many highly-regarded photographs of the Royal Family and the collections of the British Museum as well as many superb landscapes, architectural studies and still lives. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photograph salt print | Temporal: | 1852 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Fenton, Roger (1819-1869) | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/20117 | Go to resource |
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