The Old Rye House Inn

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The Old Rye House Inn

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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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Date: 1888
Medium: Photogravure
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of the Old Rye House Inn from across the River Lea. A figure in a small boat floats down the river beneath a bridge that crosses the water leading to the inn. Several canoes and rowboats docked at the inn float along the riverbank. The name of the photographer, "P.H. EMERSON", has been scratched into the lower left corner of the image.

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