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Oscar Gustave Rejlander (Stockholm, 19 October 1813 – Clapham, London, 18 January 1875) was a pioneering Victorian art photographer and an expert in photomontage. His collaboration with Charles Darwin on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals has assured him a position in the history of behavioural science and psychiatry.
Jul 1, 2013 · Learn about the life and work of Rejlander, a Swedish-born photographer who created stunning tableaux and portraits using combination printing. Discover how he influenced Charles Darwin, Queen Victoria and other artists with his innovative and expressive images.
Feb 21, 2024 · 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.
The Two Ways of Life was one of the most ambitious and controversial photographs of the nineteenth century. The picture is an elaborate allegory of the choice between vice and virtue, represented by a bearded sage leading two young men from the countryside onto the stage of life.
Jul 1, 2013 · Enter Oscar Gustave Rejlander, a successful portrait photographer in 1850s London who went from shooting fairly straight people pictures to expanding the notions of what photography...
O.G. Rejlander was a Swedish painter and photographer who is known as the “father of art photography.” Rejlander received his general education in Sweden, and he studied painting and sculpture in Rome. After considerable travel he settled in England and from 1853 practiced photography there.
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Oscar Gustave Rejlander (Stockholm, 19 October 1813 – Clapham, London, 18 January 1875) was a pioneering Victorian art photographer and an expert in photomontage.
