List members may be interested in this new book, currently available with
over 15% savings.

Poetry in Photography brings together a selection of key writings - and
images - from "one of the most virulent polemicists in the history of
photography", P H Emerson (1856-1936), whose writing was compared at the
time to "dropping a bombshell at a tea party".

Emerson argued against the fine art-based academism in the photography of
the period, and in favour of photography as a distinctive medium in its own
right. His writings mark the beginning of the transition into modernism and
are recognised as ranking alongside those of Roland Barthes, John
Szarkowski and John Berger as the precursors to contemporary thinking on
photography.

For full details, sample images, and to receive over 15% savings on the
published price, simply visit:
www.museumsetc.com/products/poetry-in-photography

Emerson's trenchant writing is in sharp contrast to the atmospheric images
of his pioneering photobooks such as Life and Landscape on the Norfolk
Broads and, what many consider his masterpiece, Marsh Leaves (1895), "one
of the most beautiful books about isolation and solitude, perhaps death,
ever made". He is now recognised as one of the nineteenth century's most
important photographers and bookmakers. A selection of his images is
reproduced with the texts in the book.

Poetry in Photography is published in colour and is the first of our titles
to be printed on premium opaque 105gsm/70lb paper to provide fine quality
image reproduction.

Poetry in Photography will be of particular value to curators of art,
photography and social history collections; photographers; educators and
interpreters; and collectors.

Graeme Farnell
Publisher, MuseumsEtc

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MuseumsEtc Ltd
UK: Hudson House | 8 Albany Street | Edinburgh EH1 3QB
USA: 675 Massachusetts Ave., Ste 11 | Cambridge | MA 02139
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