Maker/Artist
Turner, Benjamin Brecknell
English photographer and painter, 1815-1894
Turner officially took up photography in 1849 using Talbot's calotype process. In 1854 he photographed the transfer of the Crystal Palace from central London to Sydenham Hill. He also photographed the churches of Canterbury. Turner photographed the English countryside using a large format camera throughout the 1850s. According to Borcoman, Turner supposedly stopped photographing in 1862. He was a founding member of the London Photographic Society in 1854.
