Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, Transept, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, 1852

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Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, Transept, 1852, Paper negative, Image: x cm (11 7/8 x 15 13/16 in.), Negatives, Benjamin Brecknell Turner (British, 1815–1894), Like many early practitioners, Turner was a gentleman amateur for whom photography was a passion, not a profession. He took up photography in 1849, when the medium was barely a decade old. He was thirty-four, recently married, and had worked in the family's candle and saddle-soap business since age sixteen

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Size: 4897px × 3633px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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