Peter Henry Emerson
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Peter Henry Emerson (May 1856 – 12 May 1936) was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting photography as an art form. He is known for taking photographs that displayed natural settings and for his disputes with the photographic establishment about the purpose and meaning of photography.
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Publications
- Paul Ray at the Hospital: a Picture of Student Life (1882, privately published)
- Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886)
- Pictures from Life in Field and Fen (1887)
- The Compleat Angler, or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing by Izaak Walton with photogravures by Emerson (1888)
- Idylls of the Norfolk Broads (1888)
- Pictures of East Anglian Life (1888)
- Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art (1889)
- Wild Life on a Tidal Water (1890)
- On English Lagoons (1893)
- Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland (1895)
- Marsh Leaves (1895)
- Caóba, the Guerilla Chief. A Real Romance of the Cuban Rebellion (1897)
- The English Emersons, a genealogical historical sketch to the end of the 17th century (1898)
- Suggested Amended Billiard Rules for Amateur Players (1908)
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