Sneering

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Sneering

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
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Object ID
23c57cee-403d-4e91-bd34-37dae6cfa375

A woman, Mary Rejlander, looking over her shoulder with her chin slightly raised. Her mouth is open to show her teeth in a sneer.

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