Emerson, a physician turned photographer of the Norfolk Broads, argued that photography should be judged as art and should follow the way the eye actually sees nature. The first part sets out his terminology, his theory of naturalism in painting and sculpture, and the principles he drew from the physiology of sight; the second covers cameras, lenses, darkroom, studio, focusing and exposure.
A founding text of pictorial photography, still provocative for anyone thinking about the camera as an artist’s tool. Download the free EPUB.