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The Old Rye House
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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 two men on the lawn of Rye House. One of the men crouches in front of several round objects laid out on the grass, as the other stands beside him, bent over and resting his hands on his knees. The Gatehouse stands on the left side of the image, with outbuildings on the right. The name of the photographer, "P.H. EMERSON", has been scratched into the lower right corner of the image.
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