Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Two ways of life, 1857
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
5.12 1998 – 7.3 1999
Stockholm
During the period 1855 – 1875, Oscar Gustave Rejlander was one of Great Britain´s leading photographers. His works included portraits and staged classical or allegorical scenes which were based on paintings. The best known of these is “Two ways of life”. By putting together thirty negatives to form a single image the picture depicts the moral choices a young man must make in his life. This attracted a considerable amount of attention in 1857, an era of sexual prudishness, and was bought in the same year by Queen Victoria who gave it to her husband Prince Albert. The Moderna Museet´s exhibition includes 59 photographs and is being shown in collaboration with the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, UK.
Curator: Leif Wigh
