The Snow Garden
Peter Henry Emerson (Cuba, 1856–1936)
1890 - 1895
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- photomechanical print
- Dimensions
- height 179 mm x width 267 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Both The Snow Garden and At Plough – The End of the Furrow are only partly in focus. This was a conscious choice, representing the very core of Emerson's views of how photography should render reality. In his photographs he wanted to depict the world as seen by the eye, and not as recorded by the camera lens. This is how he arrived at his ‘selective focus’.
