{"id":12805,"date":"2018-10-08T06:04:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T10:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12805"},"modified":"2018-10-06T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T18:52:13","slug":"have-you-read-about-the-father-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/have-you-read-about-the-father-of-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"have you read about the father of photography?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12807\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Oscar-gustave-rejlander_two_ways_of_life_HR_sepia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12807\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12807\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Oscar-gustave-rejlander_two_ways_of_life_HR_sepia-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Two Ways of Life &#8211; 1857 By Oscar Gustave Rejlander<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Browsing books on photography in the 70s and 80s you could find photos of someone in England called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeno.org\/Fotografien\/A\/Rejlander,+Oskar+Gustav\">Oscar Rejlander<\/a> (1813-1875). He was born in Sweden (hence his name) but lived most of his life in the UK. You can read about him on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oscar_Gustave_Rejlander\">Wikipedia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to his influence on the work of prominent British photographers and traditional artists of the era, he is known today as the <em>father of photography<\/em> (whether you ever heard of him or not).<\/p>\n<p>And you can see an exhibit of his works at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallery.ca\/whats-on\/calendar\/exhibition-opening-oscar-g-rejlander-artist-photographer\">National Gallery<\/a>. The exhibit will run from October 19th, 2018 to February 3rd next year before heading down to the Getty in L.A. The reception is the night before it opens, at 6 to 8 pm the 18th in Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Browsing books on photography in the 70s and 80s you could find photos of someone in England called Oscar Rejlander (1813-1875). He was born in Sweden (hence his name) but lived most of his life in the UK. You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/have-you-read-about-the-father-of-photography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,705],"tags":[74,2239,205,5,220,887,2240,330],"class_list":["post-12805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-photos","tag-exhibition","tag-father-of-photography","tag-ottawa","tag-photographer","tag-photos","tag-rejlander","tag-sweden","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12810,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions\/12810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}