Roger Fenton

Fenton constructed this scene in a studio in London. It was taken no where near the location that is perceived. The woman even has her hands held up by strings so that she won't move. The subject is orientalist which refers to romanticizing depictions by European artists of Muslim culture in the Ottoman Empire. These scene depicted were usually fiction. Western culture had a tendency to have a bias toward this idea. These scenes would be displayed on paper or canvas and was the only source of this information. Many people therefore believed in the ideas depicted in these images.