The Gladdon-Cutter’s Return

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The Gladdon-Cutter’s Return

Artist Peter Henry Emerson (English | British, 1856-1936)

Date1886

Dimensions9 x 11 1/16 in. (22.7 x 28.7 cm)

MediumPlatinotype (platinum print)

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by an anonymous donor

Object number

1977.8

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Label TextPeter Henry Emerson was a radical photographer in his day. His concept that a photograph should be allowed to function “as a medium of expression in its own right,” without the staging and false emotion of the Victorian era, had implications still relevant today. He is considered a leading 19th-century landscape photographer, especially of genre scenes of rural life, with his best work centered on the inhabitants and scenery of the East Anglia region of England. This is plate number 33 from the portfolio Life and Landscape on the Norfork Broads, which Emerson produced in conjunction with T. F. Goodall.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Past and Present: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Jan 22 - June 8, 1999 (no cat.). Toledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.