A platinum print or platinotype is a photographic print made by a printing process that leaves platinum metal on the surface of the paper. Platinum prints are noted for their large tonal range and for
Coming Home from the Marshes, platinum print by Peter Henry Emerson, 1886
Dance Study by Adolph de Meyer 1912 Met Museum Collection
Title: [Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace on a Beach]
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
Platinum print
…Coming Home from the Marshes, platinum print by Peter Henry Emerson, 1886 A platinum print or platinotype is a photographic print made by a printing process that leaves platinum metal on the surface of the paper. Platinum…
"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)