| Names: | Other: Gustav Rejlander
Other: O.G. Rejlander
Other: Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
Other: Oscar Gustav Rejlander
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| | Dates: | 1813 - 1875, 18 January | | Born: | Sweden | | Active: | England | | Gender: | Male |
Originally a painter, Rejlander learned photography as an aid to painting and produced many painterly studies, including the most famous The Two Ways of Life, painstakingly printed from 32 glass negatives. His nude studies were used by artists for copy purposes rather than go to the extra expense of paying a model to pose. He also took the photographs used to demonstrate different human expressions for Charles Darwin‘s book "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals".
[Courtesy of Pam Roberts]Preparing biographies
General reading
Darwin, Charles, 1890, Expression of Emotion in Men and Animals [Photographs by O. G. Rejlander] [LL_REF:60]
Fielding, A.G., 1987, ‘Rejlander in Wolverhampton: His Sponsorship by William Parke‘, History of Photography [LL_REF:1759]
Smith, Graham, 1994, ‘Rejlander, Babbage, and Talbot‘, History of Photography, vol.18, no.3, pp.285-286 [LL_REF:343]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Bunnell, Peter C, 1979, The Photography of O. G. Rejlander: Two Selections, (New York: Arno) [LL_REF:44]
Jones, Edgar Yoxall, 1973, Father of Art Photography: O. G. Rejlander, 1813-1875, (London: David and Charles) [LL_REF:208]
Spencer, Stephanie, 1984, ‘O. G. Rejlander's Photographs of Street Urchins‘, Oxford Art Journal, vol.7, no.2, pp.17-24 [LL_REF:354]
Spencer, Stephanie, 1985, O. G. Rejlander: Photography as Art, (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press) [LL_REF:353]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
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Family history
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 | Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Allegories |
|  | Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Homeless |
|  | Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Infant Photography Gives the Painter an Additional Brush |
|  | Oscar Gustave Rejlander: The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals |
|  | Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Two Ways of Life |
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All photographs by this photographer
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
[NOTE: This is a subscription service and you will need to pay an annual fee to access the content.] | Show on this site | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.51 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.426-427
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.219-220 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
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