Peter Henry Emerson
British Photographer · 1856–1936
298 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture
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
Works
View as IIIF ↗A Backwater on the Lea
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Backwater on the Lea
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Broadman's Cottage
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Broadman's Cottage
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Corner of Old Yarmouth
Getty Museum · 1890
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A Corner of Old Yarmouth
Getty Museum · 1890
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A Corner of the Farm-Yard
Getty Museum · 1895
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A Dame's School
Getty Museum · 1887
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[A Daughter of the Marshlands]
Getty Museum · 1893
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A Fisherman at Home
Getty Museum · 1887
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[A Frosty Morning]
Getty Museum · 1893
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[A Frosty Morning at Coltishall]
Getty Museum · 1893
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A Garden End. [Suffolk.]
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Garden End. [Suffolk.]
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Grey Day Pastoral
Getty Museum · 1887
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A March Pastoral. [Suffolk.]
Getty Museum · 1888
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A March Pastoral. [Suffolk.]
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Marsh Farm
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Marsh Farm
Getty Museum · 1886
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[A Misty Morning at Norwich]
Getty Museum · 1893
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A Misty Morning on the North Sea
Getty Museum · 1887
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Amwell Church
Getty Museum · 1888
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An Autumn Morning
Getty Museum · 1886
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An Autumn Morning
Getty Museum · 1886
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An Autumn Pastoral
Getty Museum · 1887
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An Eel-Catcher's Home
Getty Museum · 1886
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An Eel-Catcher's Home
Getty Museum · 1886
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[A Norfolk Boat-Yard]
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Norfolk Boat-Yard
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Norfolk Boat-Yard
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Norfolk Flower
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Norfolk Flower
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Rainy Day at Flander's Weir
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Reed Boat-House
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Reed Boat-House
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Reed-Cutter at Work
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Reed-Cutter at Work
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Rope Walk
Getty Museum · 1890
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A Rope Walk
Getty Museum · 1890
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A Ruined Water-Mill
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Ruined Water-Mill
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Rushy Shore
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Rushy Shore
Getty Museum · 1886
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A Sailing Match at Horning, 1885
Getty Museum · negative 1885; print 1886
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A Sailing Match at Horning, 1885
Getty Museum · negative 1885; print 1886
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A Slippery Path - Winter Scene. [Norfolk.]
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Slippery Path - Winter Scene. [Norfolk.]
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Spring Idyl
Getty Museum · 1887
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A Stiff Pull. [Suffolk.]
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Suffolk Dike
Getty Museum · 1887
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A Suffolk Shrimper "Coming Ashore"
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Suffolk Shrimper "Coming Ashore"
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Suffolk Shrimper "Going Off"
Getty Museum · 1888
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A Toad in the Path: Early Spring in Norfolk
Getty Museum · 1888
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At Plough - The End of the Furrow
Getty Museum · 1887
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At the Covert Corner. [Norfolk.]
Getty Museum · 1888
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At the Covert Corner. [Norfolk.]
Getty Museum · 1888
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[At the Ferry - A Misty Morning]
Getty Museum · 1893
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At the Grindstone - a Suffolk Farmyard
Getty Museum · 1888
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Autumn Floods
Getty Museum · 1887
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