Gloucestershire sale shows Fenton in Orientalist mode
A GROUP of five photographs by pioneering British photographer Roger Fenton (1819-1869) sold for £100,500, some five times above their combined estimate, at Dominic Winter of South Cerney, Gloucestershire on June 17.
Fenton, who studied as a painter in Paris, made his name photographing the Crimea in 1855, but these…