Sigrid Lien

Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration

Übersetzer: Sjoholm, Barbara

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Produktbeschreibung

Sigrid Lien is professor of art history and photography studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, and a leading authority on Norwegian photography. She has published extensively on modern and contemporary visual culture and is the author of the first extensive history of photography in Norway.¿ Barbara Sjoholm is a translator of Norwegian and Danish, as well as the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, including Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 201mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781517901998
• ISBN-10: 1517901995
• Artikelnr.: 52424149

Autorenporträt

Sigrid Lien is professor of art history and photography studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, and a leading authority on Norwegian photography. She has published extensively on modern and contemporary visual culture and is the author of the first extensive history of photography in Norway.  Barbara Sjoholm is a translator of Norwegian and Danish, as well as the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, including Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction. “Send Us Your Portraits”: Letters and Pictures in the History
of Emigration
1. The Glass Plates in the Tobacco Barn: Andrew Dahl’s Photographic
Production
2. Views from Main Street: Small Town Photographers in Minnesota
3. Last Seen Alone on the Prairie: Emigration and the Unseen Female
Photographers
4. Place and the Rhythm of Life: Peter J. Rosendahl’s Photographs from
Spring Grove, Minnesota
5. Out of Cupboards and Drawers: America-Photography in Norwegian Rural
Communities
6. Saved from Oblivion: Photography in the Chronicles of Norwegian-American
Families
Conclusion. “God, How I Have Longed”: America-Photographs as Interventions
Norwegian–American Photographers, 1860–1960
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index