Peter Henry Emerson

♂ *1856-1936 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

P. H. Emerson, selected by Susan Derges

in association with Robert Hershkowitz

Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (GB)
18 Sep 2025 – 18 Oct 2025
The Honest Landscape

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (US)
27 Nov 2013 – 4 May 2014
Photography Not Art

Naturalism according to P.H. Emerson (1886-1895)

Musée d'Orsay , Paris (FR)
16 Mar 2010 – 20 Jun 2010
The Old Order and the New: P.H. Emerson and Photography 1885-1895

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
27 Mar 2007 – 8 Jul 2007
The old order and the new

P H Emerson and photography 1885-1895

National Media Museum, Bradford (GB)
13 Oct 2006 – 4 Feb 2007

Group

Light and Magic

The Birth of Art Photography

Tate Modern, London (GB)
14 Oct 2026 – 21 Feb 2027

with Emma Barton, Shapoor N. Bhedwar, Luo Bonian, Baron Adolphe De Meyer, Fan Ho, Chin-San Long, Madame Yevonde, Nobuaki Onishi, Bertram Park, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Lionel Wendt …
Coming into Focus

A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (US)
17 Jul 2025 – 4 Jan 2026

with Berenice Abbott, Anonymous, Disfarmer (Mike Meyer), Genevieve Gaignard, Barkley L. Hendricks, Ken Heyman, David Octavius Hill, Andre Kertesz, Mary Ellen Mark, Felix Nadar, Arthur Rothstein, Cindy Sherman …
Etched by Light

Photogravures from the Collection, 1840–1940

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
15 Oct 2023 – 4 Feb 2024

with Laure Albin-Guillot, James Craig Annan, Alvin Langdon Coburn, William Henry Fox Talbot, Man Ray , Charles Nègre, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White sen.
A New Art: Photography and Impressionism

Eine neue Kunst. Photographie und Impressionismus

Museum Barberini , Potsdam (DE)
12 Feb 2022 – 8 May 2022

with Olympe Aguado, Eugene Cuvelier, Alphonse Davanne, Louise Deglane, Robert Demachy, Hugo Henneberg, Heinrich Kuehn, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, Charles Marville, Emile J. Constant Puyo …
Gathering Clouds

Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
10 Jul 2020 – 3 Jan 2021

with Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Alejandro Cartagena, John Chiara, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Sharon Harper, Gustave Le Gray, Joshua Rashaad McFadden, Sean McFarland, Abelardo Morell, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Trevor Paglen, Henry Peach Robinson …
You Are Here

A Brief History of Photography and Place

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
26 Apr 2019 – 28 Jul 2019

with Lola Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Anna Atkins, Adolphe Braun, John Divola, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Edward Steichen, Carrie Mae Weems
21st Annual Summer Sale

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jul 2018 – 17 Aug 2018

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Paul Caponigro, Carl Chiarenza, Gerard Petrus Fieret, Francis Frith, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Andre Kertesz, Erik Kessels, Herb Ritts
Looking Back

Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas (US)
17 Feb 2018 – 5 May 2018

with Arthur Ann Segan, Jack Delano, Harold Feinstein, Andre Kertesz, Ruth Orkin, Arthur Rothstein, Ralph Steiner, Alfred Stieglitz, Karl F. Struss
New Realities

Photography in the Ninenteenth Century

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
17 Jun 2017 – 17 Sep 2017

with Thomas Annan, Anna Atkins, Charles Hippolyte Aubry, George Hendrik Breitner, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, Francis Frith, Nicolaas Henneman, Gustave Le Gray, Robert MacPherson, Charles Nègre
All That Glitters is Not Gold

Platinum Photography from the Center for Creative Photography

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)
1 Nov 2014 – 1 Mar 2015

with Dick Arentz, Margrethe Mather, Edward Weston
Where: The Exploration of Photographs and Place, 1843-2014

A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans (US)
23 Oct 2014 – 31 Jan 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Shimon Attie, Dimitry Baltermants, Ernest James Bellocq, Margaret Bourke-White, Wynn Bullock, Keith Carter, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward S. Curtis, Lynn Davis …
A Subtle Beauty: Platinum Photographs from the Collection

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
5 Oct 2014 – 4 Jan 2015

with Alvin Langdon Coburn, Frederick Henry Evans, Gertrude Kaesebier, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence H. White
Manifesto!

An Alternative History of Photography

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
13 Sep 2014 – 23 Nov 2014

with Shahidul Alam, Nobuyoshi Araki, Keith Arnatt, Mel Bochner, Victor Burgin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Louis Darget, William Henry Fox Talbot, Francis Frith, Luigi Ghirri, Raoul Hausmann …
Photogravure: Master Prints from the Collection

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
11 May 2013 – 11 Aug 2013

with Edward S. Curtis, Eikoh Hosoe, Gertrude Kaesebier, Man Ray , Lorna Simpson, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand
Icons of photography

Treasures from the Karin and Lars Hall collection

Statoil office - Main reception area, Oslo (NO)
31 Mar 2011 – 15 Aug 2011

with Michael Ackerman, Patrik Andersson, Eugene Atget, John Batho, Jim Bengston, Pehr Vilhelm Berggren, Karl Blossfeldt, Edouard Boubat, Mark Cohen, Edward S. Curtis, Bernard Faucon, William Henry Fox Talbot …
Working Shifts: Photography from the Collection

Queens Museum of Art, New York (US)
4 Apr 2010 – 31 Dec 2010

with Berenice Abbott, Felice Beato, Josef Breitenbach, Roger Fenton, Jean Louis Garnell, Fritz Henle, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Pedro Meyer, Dulce Pinzon, Sylvia Plachy, Herbert G. Ponting …
BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY 2009

Chris Beetles Gallery, London (GB)
8 Dec 2009 – 9 Jan 2010

with Cecil Beaton, Bill Brandt, John Bulmer, Terence Donovan, Paul Kenny, Patrick Lichfield (Lord Lichfield), Lord Snowdon , Roger Mayne, Norman Parkinson, Martin Parr, Edwin Smith, John Swannell
Sammlung FOTOGRAFIS Bank Austria im MdM Salzburg

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
20 Jun 2009 – 5 Oct 2009

with Robert Adamson, Diane Arbus, Edouard Baldus, Herbert Bayer, Felice Beato, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ernest James Bellocq, Arthur Benda, Bisson Freres, Karl Blossfeldt, Howard Bond, Margaret Bourke-White …
Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (US)
3 Jan 2008 – 6 Apr 2008

with Bill Brandt, Julia Margaret Cameron, Francis Frith
Iconos: La mejor fotografía y cine de la George Eastman House

Fundación Barrié, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
5 Oct 2004 – 9 Jan 2005

with Eddie Adams, Ansel Adams, Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Felix Bonfils, Margaret Bourke-White, Mathew B. Brady, Adolphe Braun, Wynn Bullock …
Invito alla Fotografia

Fondazione Sozzani, Milano (IT)
13 Dec 2003 – 31 Dec 2003

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Felice Beato, Karl Blossfeldt, Edouard Boubat, William Carter , Larry Clark, William Claxton, Roger Corona, Raul Corrales, Mario Cravo Neto, Edward S. Curtis, Alfred Eisenstaedt …

Events

Made in U.K. Part III

Maison Européenne Photo, Paris (FR)

with Bill Brandt, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, William Henry Fox Talbot, Eadweard J. Muybridge
Photographs

Bonhams New York, New York (US)

with Slim Aarons, Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Ruth Bernhard, Julie Blackmon, Margaret Bourke-White, Rene Burri, Harry Callahan, Julia Margaret Cameron …