The Lea, Near Hoddesdon

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The Lea, Near Hoddesdon

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Peter Henry Emerson

British Photographer · 1856–1936

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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. 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
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View of a horse and carriage tied to a tree as a man stands at the back of the carriage on the bank of the River Lea. A horse can be seen grazing behind a fence that lines a field on the far side of the river. The name of the photographer, "P.H. EMERSON", has been scratched into the lower right corner of the image.

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