

Often in the other hand, the sitter carries the weapon of their own murder. Many later photographers created similar images of men and women with severed heads, depicted held in their hands, laid on a platter or held aloft by the hair. It was some months before the artist ventured to ask the model to lend his head … and years before he obtained his consent." …The curious thing is, that he did not so much see the modern gentleman as always the picture which the head suggested. Photographer Henry Peach Robinson, described Reilander's insistence on finding a model for John the Baptist saying that "Rejlander saw his head on the shoulders of a gentleman in the town. The photograph dates from somewhen between 18. John the Baptist in a Charger, a print made by combining two different negatives. John the Baptist in a Charger by Oscar Gustave Rejlander, circa 1858Īn early example of the genre is photographer Oscar Gustave Rejlander's Head of St.


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