Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff

Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff

Peter Henry Emerson, 1886

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Artist: Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936)
Medium: Platinum print
Size: Image: 13.6 x 27.6 cm (5 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Culture: England
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights: CC0 — no rights reserved

Reacting against the theatrical, sentimental photogaphs made by his contemporaries, Peter Henry Emerson pursued a direct and more naturalistic form of photography. He discovered his subjects in familiar scenes from everyday life and captured them on film. This image was included among the 40 prints illustrating Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, one of many books Emerson published on the marsh dwellers of East Anglia. In this photograph the word "schoof" refers to the sheaf of marsh plants that have been harvested to be dried and stored at home.

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