Poplars and Pollards on the Lea, Near Broxbourne

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Poplars and Pollards on the Lea, Near Broxbourne

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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 a man standing on the banks of the River Lea with a fishing pole cast out over the water as a rowboat floats just next to him, tied up to the riverbank. Pollarded trees line the river on one side and tall poplar trees line the river on the other. The name of the photographer, "P.H. EMERSON", has been scratched into the lower left corner of the image.

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