# Osier-Peeling

- By: Peter Henry Emerson (Cuba, 1856–1936)
- Date: 1883 - 1888
- Medium: tracing paper, cardboard, paper
- Classification: photomechanical print
- Dimensions: height 212 mm x width 285 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-F80239--9d3e5992501aa886a09fb3b5b4b73c28)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/cOseB/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.