Peter HenryEmerson (13 May 1856 – 12 May 1936) was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting straight photography as an art form.
Peter HenryEmerson was an English photographer who promoted photography as an independent art form and created an aesthetic theory called “naturalistic photography.” Trained as a physician, Emerson first began to photograph as a part of an…
Naproti tomu Peter HenryEmerson razil heslo „věrohodnost zobrazení podle přírody“. Tvrdil, že úkolem umělce není zobrazovat svět pomocí triků a klamů, ale chtěl naopak zachytit svět tak, jak ho vidí lidské oko.
P.H. Emerson pioneered the creative use of the photogravure process. Beginning in 1887, Emerson published seven books heavily illustrated with his sensitive photogravure images of life, labor and landscape in rural England.
Peter HenryEmerson was born May 3, 1856, in LaPalma, Cuba. His father, Henry Ezekial Emerson was American, descending from the ancestral families of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel F.B.