Peter Henry Emerson

Peter Henry Emerson (1856–1936) was a Cuban-born photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting photography as an art form. He is known for taking photographs that displayed natural settings.

Emerson was born in Cuba to a British mother and an American father. He spent most of his youth in New England. He moved to England in 1869 and went to Cambridge University, where he earned his medical degree in 1885. The next year, he abandoned his career as a surgeon and became a photographer and writer. He published eight books of his work through the next ten years, but did not release anything else after the turn of the century. He died in Falmouth in 1936.

References

• Peter Henry Emerson. Accessed on March 30, 2005.
• The Life and Work of P. H. Emerson. Accessed on March 30, 2005.

External links

• Gallery of Emerson's works