Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) was a leading English photographer who spearheaded a style he termed "naturalistic photography." He argued for photography as a fine art, encouraged his colleagues to
William B. Post (1857-1921) was a pioneer fine art photographer at the turn of the twentieth century. Admired by Alfred Stieglitz, he was among the first American photographers to carefully compose hi
Peterson, the associate curator of photographs at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts introduces this collection with a history of that museum's photography collection and the founding photography curat
