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Time: July 17, 2010 to August 29, 2010
Location: Musée d'Orsay
Street: 1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur
City/Town: 75007 Paris
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Event Type: exhibition
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Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2010
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In 1895, only ten years after abandoning medicine to take up photography, Peter Henry Emerson published Marsh Leaves, his last illustrated book. Today it is difficult to imagine the feelings these landscapes inspired in readers of the time – images as uncontrived and evanescent as those in his first collection, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads published in 1886, were a concentrated representation of rural life.
There was a clear development between the two books from the pictorial model of Jean-François Millet to a style influenced by James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler and Japanese art, from a documentary approach to pure poetry. Although we in the 21st century can immediately appreciate the formal radicalism that Emerson finally achieved, it is more difficult for us to imagine the fierce aesthetic debates that his first masterstroke aroused at the time.
His writings, as well as formulating Naturalistic photography, are a reminder that below the calm waters of this timeless vision of rural England lurked one of the most virulent polemicists in the history of photography.
Curator: Thomas Galifot, curator at the Musée d'Orsay
Photo: Peter Henry EmersonThe Lone Lagoon© DR - Musée d'Orsay.
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