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  • Striving for Independence: Nordic Women Studio Photographers, 1860-1920

    Striving for Independence by Lien, Sigrid; Sandbye, Mette;

    Nordic Women Studio Photographers, 1860-1920

    Series: Oyster; 7;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher De Gruyter
    • Date of Publication 4 May 2026

    • ISBN 9783111338934
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages496 pages
    • Size 240x170 mm
    • Weight 500 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 200 Illustrations, color
    • 700

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    Long description:

    During the last decades of the 19th century, women used the camera, still a new technological apparatus, to establish independent lives as professional photographers. Women photographers had a particularly strong position in the Nordic countries, where photography became a tool with which to attain personal, economic, and political independence. Many hired only women assistants and remained unmarried, and some lived in lifelong relationships with women partners. Moreover, these women pioneers belonged to a generation which, for the first time, had the power to define their own visual representation as well as that of other women. Through a wide range of stories about individual photographers, this book presents a counter-history to existing histories of photography, demonstrating the medium?s liberating potential for women for the first time.

    • Counter-narratives of women?s independence in photographic histories
    • Bringing to light previously unknown Nordic women photographers
    • With contributions from leading scholars in photography studies from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland



    Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts setzten Frauen die Kamera, damals noch ein neuer technischer Apparat, ein, um ein unabh

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