[Contempt]

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[Contempt]

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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Getty Museum
Object ID
9fb36f89-52b7-4dfb-9ef9-4cccd78d989f

A man (Rejlander) standing with his shoulders hunched and his arms slightly raised. Both palms are facing the ground. His face is wrinkled to demonstrate the expression of contempt.

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