Photograph or Moving Image by ForeignPhotographer/Artist
Inventory Number
84-PHF-036
Peter Henry Emerson was a Cuban-born photographer who worked in England at the end of the 19th century. This photograph is from a collection on the wetlands of eastern England that was published in 1886 as Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.
A hunter in a boat is aiming his rifle at his prey. As if to imitate that action, the photographer focuses his camera on the man, blurring out the surrounding marshes. Emerson referred to this technique as “differential focusing” (focusing on a single point and blurring the surroundings). By using the technique, he sought to achieve photographic representation that was similar to human vision, in that it focused solely on the point of interest.
(MATSUNAGA Shintaro)
Peter Henry Emerson was a Cuban-born photographer who worked in England at the end of the 19th century. This photograph is from a collection on the wetlands of eastern England that was published in 1886 as Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.
A hunter in a boat is aiming his rifle at his prey. As if to imitate that action, the photographer focuses his camera on the man, blurring out the surrounding marshes. Emerson referred to this technique as “differential focusing” (focusing on a single point and blurring the surroundings). By using the technique, he sought to achieve photographic representation that was similar to human vision, in that it focused solely on the point of interest.
(MATSUNAGA Shintaro)