The pocket-pistol - equipped for Balaclava – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The pocket-pistol - equipped for Balaclava, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The pocket-pistol - equipped for Balaclava
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The title, "The Pocket-Pistol - Equipped for Balaclava," is written on the back of this 1855 salted paper print and sets up a wry joke: the "weapon" in the name is a humorous stand-in for a soldier's personal supplies rather than a firearm. Roger Fenton made the photographs in this series during his stay in the Crimea in 1855, when the war was in its later stages and the Balaclava area was still a British base. The salted paper process, with its hand-coated paper and long exposures, gave his images a soft, warm tone. Fenton's Crimean pictures are among the earliest photographs of a modern war, and this one offers a lighter, more personal view of camp life.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 18 x 16 cm. |
| Genre | Salted paper prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. |
| Subjects | Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Military personnel--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,673 × 4,517 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222632 |
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