Carol Szathmari (1812-1887) was a painter, lithographer and He is photographed landscape, battlefield as well as the troops and commanders of both Turkish & Russian. Worlds first war photographer during Russian-Turkish war at 1853 to 1856 (Crimean War). He was targeted by the Turkish military, they misunderstood Szathmari is Russian spy and also he was escaped from the gunners.
His three photographs were placed in the New York “International Museum of Photography at George
Eastman House”. His first photo
exhibition was held at Paris World Exposition of 1855. Szathmari offered his photographs
to Queen Victoria, to Emperors Napoleon III and Franz Josef I.
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