PHOTOGRAPHER

Roger Fenton

1819 - 1869

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Roger Fenton (28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers. Fenton was born into a Lancashire merchant family. After graduating from London with an arts degree, he became interested in painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Fenton has received more than 270,309 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Roger Fenton is the 27th most popular photographer, the 1,344th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,214th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Roger Fenton ranks 27 out of 148. Before him are Alfred Stieglitz, Josef Koudelka, Richard Avedon, August Sander, Yousuf Karsh, and Robert Mapplethorpe. After him are Irving Penn, Berenice Abbott, Jan Saudek, Nan Goldin, Guillermo Kahlo, and Claude Cahun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Roger Fenton ranks 34. Before him are Théodore Chassériau, Annibale de Gasparis, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, Elias Howe, Abner Doubleday, and Wilhelm Marr. After him are Felice Orsini, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Franz Abt, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, and Alfred Escher. Among people deceased in 1869, Roger Fenton ranks 18. Before him are Antoine-Henri Jomini, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, Carl Loewe, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, and Alexandrine Tinné. After him are Carl Gustav Carus, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, John A. Roebling, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Giulia Grisi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Fenton ranks 1,344 out of 8,785. Before him are Horace Walpole (1717), James Glaisher (1809), Paul Scholes (1974), Thomas Tew (1649), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), and Anne Perry (1938). After him are Edmund Kean (1787), George Atwood (1745), Edward Waring (1736), William Prout (1785), Peter Burke (1937), and Gideon Mantell (1790).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among photographers born in United Kingdom, Roger Fenton ranks 2. Before him are Eadweard Muybridge (1830). After him are Cecil Beaton (1904), David Bailey (1938), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), Alexander Gardner (1821), Allan Warren (1948), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), and Mick Rock (1948).

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