The Two Ways of Life

work by Rejlander

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  • Self-Portrait, photograph by O.G. Rejlander, c. 1860; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
    In O.G. Rejlander

    His most famous work, The Two Ways of Life (1857), was based on the background and arrangement of Raphael’s School of Athens (1509–11) and was created by combining more than 30 negatives. Shown in the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857, the photograph was purchased by Queen Victoria as…

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