Osier-Peeling
Also titled Het ontschillen van wilgentakken
Peter Henry Emerson (Cuba, 1856–1936)
1883 - 1888
- Medium
- tracing paper, cardboard, paper
- Classification
- photomechanical print
- Dimensions
- height 212 mm x width 285 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Emerson published his photo book Pictures of East Anglian Life in 1888. This photograph of girls peeling bark from willow branches exemplifies his desire to realistically portray the lives of rural folk. Emerson tried not to stage his shots, preferring to simply document what he saw, as he wrote in the manual Naturalistic Photography for Students of Art of 1889.
