Poor Joe

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Poor Joe

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 about 1860; print later
Medium: Carbon print
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

A mirrored reproduction of Rejlander's portrait of a young boy in rags. The boy is curled up on a set of steps, his head buried in his arms which are crossed over his knees. His trousers are tattered and his shirt is falling off his shoulder.

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