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Taking Up the Eel Net by Peter Henry Emerson

Taking Up the Eel Net

Peter Henry Emerson · 1886

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DETAILS
Artist
Peter Henry Emerson
Date
1886
Medium
platinum print
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art
Dimensions
[object Object]
Collection
Photography
Culture
England , 19th century
Credit line
Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey
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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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