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The October Hole, Near Hoddesdon
Creator
Peter Henry EmersonBritish Photographer · 1856–1936
All works by this person →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. He favored rural subjects presented in a simple, direct manner. Emerson's influential 1889 book *Naturalistic Photography
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- 1888
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- Photogravure
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- British
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- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 012f149a-98b3-4ba3-bcb4-bc04a80f3cd8
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View of a swimming hole known as the October Hole on the River Lea. A man stands on the riverbank with a fishing pole cast out over the water and his belongings on the ground beside him. The name of the photographer, "P.H. EMERSON", has been scratched into the lower right corner of the image.
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