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Emerson, Peter Henry
(1856-1936)Coming home from the Marshes

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Coming home from the Marshes. ca. 1886. Platinum palladium print. 18,9 x 28,5 cm (29,1 x 41,5 cm). Mounted to board (slightly soiled), with the original printed tissue overlay and corresponding album page from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.

Peter Henry Emerson was an important figure in the development of naturalistic photography. Rejecting the sharp-focus precision of the time, he used selective focus and tonal subtleties to create images that mimicked human vision, blending documentary realism with artistic expression. His seminal work, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886), captures Fenland laborers and fishermen in their natural environment. Influenced by the Barbizon School and contemporary vision theories, he used platinum prints and photogravures to render soft, atmospheric images. Though Emerson later questioned photography’s artistic potential, his work influenced Pictorialism and remains a milestone in documentary and fine art photography. Prints of his images are housed in institutions such as the Minneapolis Institute of Art, LACMA, the National Gallery of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. – Some small stains, otherwise a fine tonal print in excellent condition.

Lit.: Peter Henry Emerson. Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads. London: 1886. ill. pl. 1.