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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 252,141 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Roger Fenton is the 27th most popular photographer (up from 30th in 2019), the 1,218th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,190th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Photographer.

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  • 250k

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  • 57.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Roger Fenton ranks 27 out of 105Before him are Gunter Sachs, Josef Koudelka, Richard Avedon, August Sander, Elliott Erwitt, and Robert Mapplethorpe. After him are Peter Lindbergh, Irving Penn, Lewis Hine, Philippe Halsman, Yousuf Karsh, and Jan Saudek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Roger Fenton ranks 30Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Stanisław Moniuszko, Gottfried Keller, Elias Howe, Johan Jongkind, and Théodore Chassériau. After him are Annibale de Gasparis, Abner Doubleday, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Christopher Latham Sholes, and Felice Orsini. Among people deceased in 1869, Roger Fenton ranks 16Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Thomas Graham, Carl Loewe, Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Hijikata Toshizō, and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Reichenbach, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John A. Roebling, and Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Fenton ranks 1,218 out of 7,765Before him are David Warner (1941), Ryan Giggs (1973), Thomas Lipton (1848), Ginger Baker (1939), Gareth Jones (1905), and Godwin, Earl of Wessex (1001). After him are Keira Knightley (1985), P. D. James (1920), David Byron (1947), George Atwood (1745), John Russell Hind (1823), and Jason Isaacs (1963).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

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