Oscar Rejlander: Godfather of Photoshop
“Two Ways of Life (Hope in Repentance)” (1857), by Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Albumen silver print. Moderna Museet, StockholmOne step ahead “Oscar G. Rejlander: Artist Photographer” at the Getty Some artists are born a little too late and some are born a little too soon. Those born at just the right moment can hold out their arms and receive the accolades. Oscar Gustaf Rejlander (1813-1875) might have found a job in the motion picture industry creating special effects had he been born at the end rather than at the beginning of the nineteenth century. “The First Negative” (1857), by Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Albumen silver print. Musée d’Orsay. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais/Patrice Schmidt“While his work typically has been regarded as a detour from the continuum that saw the history of photography as a series of developments of objective documentation,” Lori Pauli says of Rejlander, “his photographs have important relevance to today’s artists who combine and rearrange images through the use of digital tools instead of glass-plate negatives.” Or as Marc Meyer, director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, phrases it, “Rejlander’s conviction that photography was a medium of artistic…
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