The mighty world of Roger Fenton.(Focus on Photography)(All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860)

Publication: USA Today (Magazine)

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THE MOST CELEBRATED and influential photographer in England during the medium's "golden age" of the 1850s is the subject of the exhibition "All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860." It brings together 90 of the artist's most compelling and best preserved works. Together they reveal Fenton (1819-1869) as a towering figure in the history of photography and an unparalleled master of all the young medium's genres--architecture, landscape, portraiture, still life, reportage, and tableau-vivant.

Fenton was influenced profoundly by the great English Romantic painters and poets of the early 19th century. The exhibition takes its title from William Wordsworth's Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, an ode to nature in which the author declares himself "A lover...

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