Monday, March 18, 2013

Peter Henry Emerson

     Born in Cuba to an American father and a British mother,  Peter Henry Emerson (1856 - 1936), started his career as a doctor, but once he discovered photography, he left other interests behind him and pursued photography wholeheartedly.  Emerson embraced a style of photography that was very different for his time.  He felt that photographs should  show things as they really were and not posed or contrived.  This created quite a stir in the photgraphic world.
In 1889 (1889!) Emerson published a book entitled,  Naturalistic Photography for Students of Art.  I am amazed at early photographers and all the work they went through to produce an image.  I would love to see what they could accomplish with a digital camera!
If you would like to learn more about Peter Henry Emerson, you can read about him here
and here


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