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Amwell Church
Peter Henry Emerson
- Date
- 1888
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
View of St. John the Baptist Church from across the New River in Great Amwell. The name of the photographer, "P.H. EMERSON", has been scratched into the lower left corner of the image.
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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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