Taking up the Eel-Net

1886

Part of a groundbreaking photographic survey, the image demonstrates naturalistic photography's commitment to recording disappearing rural traditions through direct observation.

Medium: Platinum print, pl. VII from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)

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Peter Henry Emerson, Taking up the Eel-Net, 1886

Part of a groundbreaking photographic survey, the image demonstrates naturalistic photography's commitment to recording disappearing rural traditions through direct observation.

Medium: Platinum print, pl. VII from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)
Year: 1886
Seen at: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art