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Footbridge Near Chingford
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
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 2c8a34da-2f9c-40fe-92ef-d15f846eb7bd
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View of a wooden footbridge over the River Lea from the riverbank. A house sits on the far side of the river at the end of the bridge. The name of the photographer, "P.H. EMERSON", has been scratched into the lower right corner of the image.
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