1850

In the early 1800's Candid photography was hardly existent as it took so long to take an image that it was hard to do the whole camera set up and preparation's without your models noticing. Action shots were out of the question as again the time it would take for an i8mage would outlive the split second the photographer would try to capture.

 

However there was a beginning to candid photography through war as people had so much to focus on in the battle field that a man with a camera seemed like the least of their worries and got little attention. This was the start to the birth of candid photography.

 

Rodger Fenton was sent to document the Crimean war which lasted 1853-1946. There was speculation and criticism on how the English were contributing and dealing with the war and so he was sent by the English to document the war through photography and send his images back.

 

This is one of his images which appears to be candid as we see none of the subjects focus on the cameraman and they tend to the main issue which is the injured soldier therefore technically making this a candid photograph.

This image was taken in 1855 labelled: Injured zouave, Crimea.

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