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It Won't Rain To-day
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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- about 1865
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 9dfaf164-329a-4201-8da3-581861e3a05f
Portrait of a shoeshine boy seated waiting for customers.
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