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- Peter Henry Emerson captured images across Great Yarmouth and the Norfolk Broads to showcase his naturalistic approach to the artform. The trained doctor, who was born in Cuba and moved to England as a teenager, was attracted to East Anglia by its traditions. He focused on the area and its people in his work between 1885 and 1895.
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May 9, 2024 · Peter Henry Emerson was an English photographer who promoted photography as an independent art form and created an aesthetic theory called “naturalistic photography.”. Trained as a physician, Emerson first began to photograph as a part of an anthropological study of the peasants and fishermen of.
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Title: Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads. 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
Jun 25, 2019 · In the late 19th century the writer and photographer Peter Henry Emerson collaborated with the artist Thomas Frederick Goodall to create an 'epoch-making' photographic album called 'Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads', as Hope Kingsley writes.
Peter Henry Emerson. "Ricking the reed", from Emerson's first photographic album Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886) Peter Henry Emerson (13 May 1856 – 12 May 1936) was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting straight photography as an art form.
Feb 22, 2024 · Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads. Illustrated with Forty Beautiful Plates from Nature Executed in Platinotype... Artist/Maker: Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936) Thomas F. Goodall (English, 1857 - 1944) Date: 1886. Medium: Platinotype. Dimensions: Closed: 30 × 43.2 × 4.3 cm (11 13/16 × 17 × 1 11/16 in.) Place:
Biography. Born in Cuba of an American father and English mother, Emerson studied medicine in England before taking up photography in 1885. He was the founder of the Naturalist school in opposition to the pictorial photography of the late 19th century, and advocated the soft focus lens techniques. His record of life in the Norfolk and Suffolk ...
Poling the Marsh Hay. 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.
