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Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads

Peter Henry Emerson, 1885

MEDIUMPlatinum prints from glass negatives
DIMENSIONSImages: 12 x 18 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.) to 23 x 30 cm (9 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
LOCATIONThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
COLLECTIONPhotographs
CREDIT LINEGift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2008
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THE ARTIST
Peter Henry Emerson

Peter Henry Emerson championed "straight photography" as an art form, capturing the natural beauty of rural East Anglia in works like "Poling the Marsh Hay."

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