Peter Nohrnberg

Photographer, Poet, Critic
At the Water's Edge
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Location: Cambridge, MA
Nationality: USA
Biography: Peter Nohrnberg is a scholar of literary modernism, poet, and photographer.  He has been taking photographs since he was an adolescent, and is currently a member of the Boston Photographic Resource Center.  His photographs have been... read on
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At the Water's Edge
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Updated 11/22/21
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These photographs were mostly taken at beaches, docks, and harbors around New England.  Generically situated between landscape photography and photo journalism, they depict the overlapping human ecologies at the water's edge: a place of both work and play, of adult labors and childhood pleasures.  
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