Walter Benington
(1872-1936), PhotographerArtist associated with 67 portraits
Walter Benington started his photographic career while still at school. The snapping of groups and friends soon palled, and he took up platinotype printing and pictorial landscape work. His first real success was a picture entitled Among the Housetops, which was exhibited in 1893, and this was responsible for him being invited to join the Linked Ring, in whose annual shows he was regularly represented. In 1927 Benington began working for the photographic studio Elliott & Fry as a freelance portrait photographer.
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate copy glass negative, published 1927
NPG x82056
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, published 1927
NPG x82134
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, 1943 (published 1927)
NPG x82153
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, published 1927
NPG x82635
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1930
NPG x91287
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, early 1930s
NPG x99983
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, 1942 (1931-1932)
NPG x82058
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