Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens

by Barnes, Martin; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Daniel, Malcolm R.

• ISBN13: 9781851773350
• ISBN10: 1851773355
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-30
• Publisher: Gardners Books

Summary

Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815-94) was one of the first, and remains one of the greatest, British amateur photographers. He produced some of the finest early photographs of rural England. Between 1852 and 1854 he compiled 60 of his photographs in an album titled Photographic Views from Nature. A superb compilation of vintage pictures, now in the V&A, it forms the basis of both this book and the companion exhibition, organised by the V&A in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and opening alongside the V&A's spring 2001 exhibition Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision.

Author Biography

Martin Barnes is Assistant Curator of Photographs at the VandA. He has organised exhibitions and written articles on 19th-century photography, collecting and architecture Malcolm Daniel is Associate Curator of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mark Haworth-Booth is Curator of Photographs at the VandA

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 4
Chronology of Benjamin Brecknell Turner's Life	p. 6
Introduction: The State of the Art	p. 8
Benjamin Brecknell Turner: A Biography	p. 16
Photographic Views from Nature	p. 35
Notes	p. 72
The Plates	p. 77
List of Plates	p. 124
Glossary of Photographic Processes and Techniques	p. 126
Select Bibliography	p. 127
Index	p. 128
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