Emerson, Peter Henry. Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art (1889). New York: Arno Press, 1974
Peter Henry Emerson
Died: Falmouth, Cornwall, 12 May 1936
Nationality: English
medicine at King’s College Hospital (1879, London); Bachelor of Medicine degree from Cambridge University (1885); studies photography while at Cambridge
1869 – family returns to England
1883 – joins Photographic Society of Great Britain
1885 – founds Camera Club; lectures at Camera Club and Royal Photographic Society
1886 – retires as doctor to pursue photography; publishes Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, co-authored with Thomas F. Goodall
1887 – discovers photographer Alfred Stieglitz while judging amateur photographer contest
1888 – publishes Pictures of East Anglian Life
1889 – publishes Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art
1890 – publishes Wild Life on a Tidal Water and The Death of Naturalistic Photography, a pamphlet declaring photography a mechanical process rather than an art
1893 – publishes On English Lagoons
1895 – publishes Marsh Leaves; awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s Progress Medal
Travels
Cuba and the USA prior to 1869