EMERSON, Peter Henry.

£6,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Marsh Leaves. First edition of the author and artist's last published book of photographs, containing some of his most distinguished works. The photogravure plates were made directly from Emerson's negatives and were printed under his supervision. Accompanied by Emerson's sparse prose, the resulting images hauntingly evoke the damp, misty mornings common to the East Anglian fenlands.Emerson was awarded the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society earlier in 1895. It was the highest honour bestowed by the society and the first it gave for artistic achievement. Marsh Leaves continued to expand aesthetic frontiers. "It does not seem possible these images were made in 1890-91; he seems to have entered a whole new period of the perception of form, detail, composition. He belongs with Monet and the Post-Impressionists and even anticipates much later periods in art - the early Abstractionists, for example" (Newhall, p. 103).

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