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Peter Henry Emerson was actually a doctor and scientist. He bought his first camera in 1882, and from then on it was a faithful companion. Together with his friend, the ornithologist A.T. Evans, he went on excursions on which the first photographs were taken. With the same seriousness with which he studied physics, chemistry and medicine, Emerson threw himself into the study of photography at Cambridge University. The works, taken during an anthropological study of fishermen and farmers in the east of England, showed how Emerson understood photography: it should reproduce what the human eye sees in nature. A sharp main subject, the rest blurred into blur.
His style of photography was met with interest, but also rejection. In the Victorian era, in the mid-19th century, the emphasis was on emotive, romantic staging. Elaborate costumes, made-up models, opulent backdrops served as subjects. So very different from Emerson's work. He regarded this type of photography with a certain disdain. Nature was the core of his photographs. Unadulterated, genuine, direct, without any pathos. The way man saw his surroundings. He was aware that he polarized. But in lectures, books and articles he vehemently represented his opinion. He could afford to do so. Emerson was born into a wealthy family in Cuba. His father was American and owned sugar and coffee plantations on the island. His mother, Jane Harris Biling, was English. After his father's death, Emerson moved to England and enjoyed a privileged education at a private boys' school in Cranleigh. He completed his medical studies with honors in 1880.
Emerson developed into a classic Victorian gentleman. He played billiards, founded a rowing club, and was an active member of the Royal Meteorological Society. He wrote his first book in 1881,and married Edith Amy Ainsworth, an Englishwoman, that same year. She was the daughter of a surgeon. With her he had five children. The first book was followed by more than thirteen others and countless articles. Emerson was also a co-founder of the Camera Club of London, where a group of amateur photographers met from 1886. In his lecture 'Photography: A Pictorial Art` he presented his scientifically based theory of art. For him, photography was synonymous with art. Emerson placed it on the same level as painting. With only one difference: the camera did not know color. Emerson proved how right he was with his theory of art in the same year when he published the 'Gathering Waterlilies'. They were the first nature photographs to be produced from the negative. An epochal chapter in photography. There were only two limited edition autogravures that sold out immediately. This was Emerson's breakthrough. The theory of art based on science found its first visual implementation. His photography became the antithesis of the typical, cloying photographic representation of the Victorian age.
Peter Henry Emerson was actually a doctor and scientist. He bought his first camera in 1882, and from then on it was a faithful companion. Together with his friend, the ornithologist A.T. Evans, he went on excursions on which the first photographs were taken. With the same seriousness with which he studied physics, chemistry and medicine, Emerson threw himself into the study of photography at Cambridge University. The works, taken during an anthropological study of fishermen and farmers in the east of England, showed how Emerson understood photography: it should reproduce what the human eye sees in nature. A sharp main subject, the rest blurred into blur.
His style of photography was met with interest, but also rejection. In the Victorian era, in the mid-19th century, the emphasis was on emotive, romantic staging. Elaborate costumes, made-up models, opulent backdrops served as subjects. So very different from Emerson's work. He regarded this type of photography with a certain disdain. Nature was the core of his photographs. Unadulterated, genuine, direct, without any pathos. The way man saw his surroundings. He was aware that he polarized. But in lectures, books and articles he vehemently represented his opinion. He could afford to do so. Emerson was born into a wealthy family in Cuba. His father was American and owned sugar and coffee plantations on the island. His mother, Jane Harris Biling, was English. After his father's death, Emerson moved to England and enjoyed a privileged education at a private boys' school in Cranleigh. He completed his medical studies with honors in 1880.
Emerson developed into a classic Victorian gentleman. He played billiards, founded a rowing club, and was an active member of the Royal Meteorological Society. He wrote his first book in 1881,and married Edith Amy Ainsworth, an Englishwoman, that same year. She was the daughter of a surgeon. With her he had five children. The first book was followed by more than thirteen others and countless articles. Emerson was also a co-founder of the Camera Club of London, where a group of amateur photographers met from 1886. In his lecture 'Photography: A Pictorial Art` he presented his scientifically based theory of art. For him, photography was synonymous with art. Emerson placed it on the same level as painting. With only one difference: the camera did not know color. Emerson proved how right he was with his theory of art in the same year when he published the 'Gathering Waterlilies'. They were the first nature photographs to be produced from the negative. An epochal chapter in photography. There were only two limited edition autogravures that sold out immediately. This was Emerson's breakthrough. The theory of art based on science found its first visual implementation. His photography became the antithesis of the typical, cloying photographic representation of the Victorian age.
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.jpg "Quanting the Marsh Hay by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Gunner Working Up to Fowl by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1067879).jpg "Ricking the Reed by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1056038).jpg "The Fowler")
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.jpg "A Winter")
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.jpg "One of Forty Platinum Prints from")
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.jpg "An Old Man and His Daughter Gardening by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-319488).jpg "In the Barley-Harvest, Suffolk by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Moonlit River by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "\"Pickering Tor,\" Dove Dale by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Marshes by the North Sea, 1890-1891, printed 1893 by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Marsh Weeds by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Footbridge Near Chingford, from The Compleat Angler by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Gathering Water-Lilies by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1278486).jpg "In the Barley-Harvest (Suffolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1299752).jpg "The Clay Mill (Norfolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Sheep on the Marshes by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Cloth Fair, Smithfield c.1875 by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Rushy Shore, plate XXXV from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, plate XXI by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Poling the Marsh Hay by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Old Hulks by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-240109).jpg "A Dame")
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.jpg "The Lone Lagoon, in or before 1895 by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1270330).jpg "Osier-Peeling (Norfolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1272746).jpg "In the Haysel (Norfolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Sailing Match at Horning by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The First of the Herring by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Twig Cutters by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Stiff Pull by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Suffolk Shrimper")
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.jpg "The River Bure at Coltishall, 1886 by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Lone Lagoon by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Ricking the Reed by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1277110).jpg "Haymaker with Rake by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Poling the Marsh Hay, 1886 by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Village by the River by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Marshes in June by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Old Ship by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Gathering Water-Lilies by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Daughter of the Marshland by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Village of Horning, 1886 by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Frosty Morning, 1890-1891, printed 1893 by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Tidal Creek and Old Warehouses South of Southwold, Suffolk by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Children of the Broad by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1060355).jpg "A Broadman")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1455716).jpg "Quanting The Gladdon by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Getting Ready for Fishing by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1272699).jpg "At the Covert Corner (Norfolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1270916).jpg "Shocking Corn (Norfolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Gnarled-Thorn Trees by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "An Eel-Catcher")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1272297).jpg "Where Winds the Dike (Norfolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "At the Grindstone--A Suffolk Farmyard by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "An Eel-Catcher")
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.jpg "The Last Gate by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1280908).jpg "Leafless March (Suffolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Toad in the Path: Early Spring in Norfolk by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Reed Boat-House, Plate XXXI from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Boards by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Ricking the Reed by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Breydon Smelters by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Village of Horning by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Fetters of Winter by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Marsh Leaves by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Taking Up the Eel Net by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Ferry by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Fringe of the Mere by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Marsh Farm in Early Spring by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Gnarled Thorn Trees by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Village of Horning by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1271626).jpg "Brickmaking (Norfolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Rushy Shore by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Frosty Morning by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Daughter of the Marshland by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Poacher - A Hare in View by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Great Yarmouth Harbour by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1269166).jpg "Smelting on the River Blythe (Suffolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Sailing Match at Horning by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1269451).jpg "The Poacher - A Hare in View, (Suffolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1298422).jpg "A Stiff Pull, (Suffolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Edge of the Broad by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Mrs. Peck and Mary Critten by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Sailing Match at Horning by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "On the River Bure, 1886 by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Gnarled-Thorn Trees by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Men Hunting in a Marsh by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "The Village by the River by Peter Henry Emerson")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1280255).jpg "Blackshore, River Blythe (Suffolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Rime Crystals by Peter Henry Emerson")
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![Sheep on the Marshes [Landscape with Cattle] by Peter Henry Emerson](/kunstwerke/300px/Peter_Henry_Emerson_-_Sheep_on_the_Marshes_Landscape_with_Cattle_1890-1891_printed_1893_-_(MeisterDrucke-1136152).jpg "Sheep on the Marshes [Landscape with Cattle] by Peter Henry Emerson")
![Sheep on the Marshes [Landscape with Cattle] by Peter Henry Emerson](/kunstwerke/400w/Peter_Henry_Emerson_-_Sheep_on_the_Marshes_Landscape_with_Cattle_1890-1891_printed_1893_-_(MeisterDrucke-1136152).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1295092).jpg "The Farm by the Broad (Norfolk) by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Toil and Grime by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "A Frosty Morning at Coltishall, 1890-1891, printed 1893 by Peter Henry Emerson")
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.jpg "Gathering Waterlilies by Peter Henry Emerson")
.jpg "Cantley: Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide by Peter Henry Emerson")
.jpg "Gathering Water-Lilies by Peter Henry Emerson")
.jpg "The Snowy Marshlands, 1890-1891, printed 1893 by Peter Henry Emerson")