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The Black Pool, Near Hoddesdon
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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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View of a pool on the River Lea known as the Black Pool. A man sits on the riverbanks in the foreground, holding a fishing pole, with a wicker basket for holding fish on the ground beside him. Pollarded trees dot the landscape around 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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