Shrugging the Shoulders

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Shrugging the Shoulders

Creator

Oscar Gustave Rejlander

British Photographer · 1813–1875

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Seeing the fold of a coat sleeve in a photographic portrait prompted Oscar Gustave Rejlander to give up painting for photography. In 1853 Rejlander, eager to learn the wet-collodion process of photography in just one day, paid a hurried visit to a photographer's studio in London. As implied in the name, the wet-plate glass negative had to be used while the collodion was still damp, and the process

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Date: negative 1871–1872; print 1872
Medium: Heliotype
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: 020e7e2f-b3ae-45e0-bbf2-8f65e3abc9e2

A man (Rejlander) posed with his hands at his sides and the palms facing up. He is tilting his head slightly to one side.

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