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Only one âaction shotâ was taken during the Civil War, at the Battle of Antietam in 1862. The exposure times necessary for the wet plate process were too long to stop motion. Often photographers took âstudio-styleâ portraits of soldiers, like the photo above, which they sent back to their families.
Roger Fenton and the Birth of the Photojournalist. Another legacy was left behind, in pictures: the birth of war journalism and wartime photography. Roger Fenton, a British lawyer turned artist, turned photographer, was sent to Crimea to photograph the War in 1955. He was a well known photographer, often commissioned to photograph the Royal family, before he was hired by Thomas Agnew & Sons publishing firm to document the war to the specifications of the British government.