Emerson's Naturalistic Photography

Peter Henry Emerson was a man whose generational origins emanate back to the roots of Great Britain, a country of vast political power and unwavering economic enhancement. Yet, although he was a true descendent of the continental superpower, Emerson’s birthplace was in Enecrijada, Cuba on a sugar plantation owned by his father in La Palma Estate. As a youth, restless and naïve to explore his imminent future, Emerson had been a student learning the basics of medical procedures. It was his hope to graduate and live on to be a successful doctor, diagnosing, curing, and creating as a professional in the therapeutic field. However, Emerson promptly discarded the dream of flourishing as a medical practitioner once elected into the Council of the Royal

By the cause of numerous squabbles with the British Photography Establishment, Emerson became the “lone wolf,” of the Pictorial Movement, straying from the acclaimed composite methods of eminent photographers while following along a rebellious philosophy filled with aesthetic purpose. To many photographers, “aesthetically” inclined photographs represented the meticulous significance of art. (n.d., 2016). In 1890, he released his first literary work, “Naturalistic Photography,” to the public. Between the essence of the three hundred and thirteen paged (book), Emerson touches base on the rudiments of aesthetics, giving broader explanations supporting the interpretations of nature’s superiority in the photographic realm. He goes on to bash photography based on “costumed models,” degrading its authentic structures and artistic value. Basing all focus on our surroundings, inferring that (nature) withholds some sort of inner importance that humans do not poses. PHOTO INTERPRETATION.* However, what Emerson lacks in understanding is the similar mystery humans obtain.