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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 ...
Peter Emerson (born 1943) is a political activist in Northern Ireland. Born in Britain, Emerson's father was from County Cork, and his mother from Cheshire. He served as a submariner in the Royal Navy, where he was promoted to first lieutenant. In 1970, he began teaching in Nairobi.
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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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.
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.
Peter Henry Emerson (1856–1936) championed a style of photography he referred to as “naturalistic.” A British citizen, Emerson was born in Cuba and spent part of his childhood in the United States.
Peter Henry Emerson. British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936. Biography. Works of Art. Biography. Born in Cuba of an American father and English mother, Emerson studied medicine in England before taking up photography in 1885.
