The First Photo Assistant?

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Could this guy be the first photo assistant?

Photo assistant Marcus Sparling, seated on Roger Fenton’s photographic van, 1855. Fenton used this mobile darkroom to cover the Crimean War for a publishing company with assistance from the British government. Photo from the U.S. Library of Congress Fenton collection.

Reposted/quoted from PDN Photo of the Day.

This entry was written by Nate, posted on July 8, 2009 at 9:54 am, filed under General and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. David A.
    Posted July 8, 2009 at 9:19 pm | Permalink

    That guy looks tuff- Make that 13hr. day with overtime seem like a walk in the park!

  2. Ben
    Posted August 6, 2009 at 11:05 am | Permalink

    Well done, Nate. Nice research.

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