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Field's Weir, Near Rye House
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
- 1c07f92d-78c1-47ca-8f03-c15d6285e503
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View of a man sitting in a boat on the River Lea just downstream from the Feildes Weir. He holds a fishing pole over the water and watches the line. Horses graze in a field on the riverbank just beside the weir, which can be seen behind him. The name of the photographer, "P.H. EMERSON", has been scratched into the lower left corner of the image.
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