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Peter Henry Emerson was born May 3, 1856, in LaPalma, Cuba. His father, Henry Ezekial Emerson was American, descending from the ancestral families of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel F.B. Morse and William Howard Taft.
He spent his early years in Cuba on his father's estate. During the American Civil War he spent some time at Wilmington, Delaware, but moved to England in 1869, after the death of his father. He was schooled at Cranleigh School where he was a noted scholar and athlete.
Feb 21, 2024 · Born in Cuba and raised there and in the United States before moving to England as a teenager, physician and scientist Peter Henry Emerson took up photography at age twenty-six. Often described as a difficult zealot, he vocally championed a naturalistic approach to imagemaking.
May 9, 2024 · Peter Henry Emerson (born May 13, 1856, Cuba—died May 12, 1936, Falmouth, Cornwall, England) was an English photographer who promoted photography as an independent art form and created an aesthetic theory called “naturalistic photography.”
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Artist: Peter Henry Emerson (British (born Cuba), 1856–1936) Author: Thomas Frederick Goodall (British, 1857–1944) Printer: Valentine of Dundee. Date: 1885–86. Medium: Platinum prints from glass negatives. Dimensions: Images: 12 x 18 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.) to 23 x 30 cm (9 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.) Binding: 30.5 x 41.9 x 5.1 cm (12 x 16 1/2 x ...
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Artist: Peter Henry Emerson (British (born Cuba), 1856–1936) Date: 1886. Medium: Platinum print from glass negative. Dimensions: Image: 16.4 x 28.9 cm (6 7/16 x 11 3/8 in.) Mount: 28.6 x 41.1 cm (11 1/4 x 16 3/16 in.) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mrs. Walter Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift ...
Peter Henry Emerson British, born Cuba. 1886. Not on view. P. H. Emerson's book "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads," in which this image was one of forty plates, was the artist's first demonstration of the naturalism that he advocated for photography.
