Peter Henry Emerson was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting straight photography as an art form. He is known for taking photographs that displayed rural settings and for his disputes with the photographic establishment about the purpose and meaning of photography.
Peter Henry Emerson
"Ricking the reed", from Emerson's first photographic album Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886)
Blackshore, River Blythe, Suffolk from Emerson's illustrated book Pictures of East Anglian Life (1888)
"At Plough, The End of the Furrow", from Emerson's photographic album Pictures From Life in Field And Fen (1887)
Cranleigh School is a public school in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey.
School grounds
Cricket Pavilion