Peter Henry Emerson

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. He is known for taking photographs that displayed rural settings and for his disputes with the photographic establishment about the purpose and meaning of photography.


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