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Shrugging the Shoulders
Creator
Oscar Gustave RejlanderBritish Photographer · 1813–1875
All works by this person →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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- negative 1871–1872; print 1872
- Medium
- Heliotype
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 020e7e2f-b3ae-45e0-bbf2-8f65e3abc9e2
What the image shows
A man with a beard and bald head gestures with his hands while wearing a dark coat and a white cravat.
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From the Getty Museum record
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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