Peter Henry Emerson
(1856-1936)
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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Books
Poetry in Photography
- MuseumsEtc, 2014
Pictorial Effect Naturalistic Vision: The Photographs & Theories of Henry Peach Robinson & Peter Henry Emerson.
- Chrysler Museum Library, 1994
Peter Henry Emerson and American Naturalistic Photography
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2008
On English Lagoons: Being An Account Of The Voyage Of Two Amateur Wherrymen On The Norfolk And Suffolk Rivers And Broads (1893)
- Kessinger Publishing, 2010
Marsh Leaves
- Ramage Press, 2008