George Davison, British, 1856-1930 George Davison is known as the founder of impressionistic photography, a movement he initiated in 1890 as an extension of the naturalistic theories of <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/peter-henry-emerson">Peter Henry Emerson</a>. This, however, infuriated Emerson, who subsequently renounced earlier statements regarding photography as art. Davison was an