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How the only copy of this landscape photograph is revolutionary
Roger Fenton, [Landscape with Clouds], probably 1856, salted paper print from glass negative, 25 x 43.6 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Video from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Roger Fention’s photographic processes by the Royal Collection Trust
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