Photographs taken by Emerson in Peter Henry Emerson.

Emerson's photography collection Life and Scenery in Norfolk focuses on the life and scenery of people in Norfolk County, a scenic spot in southeast England. He photographed all the common scenery there, proving that these themes can also become works of art.

The naturalistic view of photography had a wide influence on the later development of photography, and its focus vision theory became the main theoretical basis of impressionist photography, while its essential spirit became the basis of concepts such as "direct photography" and "pure photography".

The defect of naturalistic photography is that it is satisfied with describing the surface truth of nature and the "absolute" truth of details, thus ignoring the excavation of the essence of reality and the refining of surface objects, that is, not paying attention to the typicality of artistic creation and artistic image.