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One of the earliest British amateur photographers, Benjamin Brecknell Turner was experimenting with photography barely ten years after the invention of the medium. He exhibited widely during his lifetime and is best known for his beautiful photographs of 19th-century England, picturesque ruins and rural scenes.
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Benjamin Brecknell Turner – an introduction
Discover one of the earliest, and greatest, British amateur photographers
Benjamin Brecknell Turner – working methods
Discover Turner's early use of Caltotype, or 'paper negative', photography
Benjamin Brecknell Turner's 'Photographic Views from Nature'
This unique album contains some of the earliest photography of rural England
A brief history of vampires – in print, photography and posters
Discover, if you dare, how Count Dracula haunts the V&A's collections