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A Norfolk Flower
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
- 22420384-edc9-4bbc-aa90-f3b45361c272
Head portrait of a little girl.
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