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List Of Swedish Women Photographers
This is a list of women photographers who were born in Sweden or whose works are closely associated with that country. A * Sofia Ahlbom (1803–1868), feminist, practiced as a photographer from the 1860s * Elise Arnberg (1826–1891), miniaturist and photographer B * Beata Bergström (1921–2016), photographer, known for her dance and theatre work * Arvida Byström (born 1991), photographer and model based in Los Angeles C * Anna Clarén (born 1972), photographer and educator D * Lotten von Düben (1828–1915), early amateur photographer E * Hélène Edlund (1858–1941), views of buildings and nature of Skansen * Hedda Ekman (1860–1929), writer and photographer F * Ingrid Falk (born 1960), installation artist * Hanna Ferlin (1870–1947), photographer and suffragist * Lisa Fonssagrives (1911–1992), model, dancer, sculptor, and photographer * Maria Friberg (born 1966), painter, photographer, video artist G * Marianne Greenwood (1916–2006), photographed Picas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Hald
Brita Margareta Johanna Hald (born 20 July 1945 in Stockholm) is a Swedish director, photographer and screenwriter. Selected filmography *1986 – ''Love Me! ''Love Me!'' ( sv, Älska mej) is a 1986 Swedish drama film directed by Kay Pollak. It was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Anna Lindén as Sussie * Örjan Ramberg as 'Oxen' * Tomas Fryk as Tomas * Hans Str ...'' (screenwriter) *1990 – '' Black Jack'' (screenwriter) *1990 – '' Pelle flyttar till Komfusenbo'' (screenwriter and director) *1992–93 – '' Lotta på Bråkmakargatan'' (director and screenwriter) *1996 – '' Kalle Blomkvist – Mästerdetektiven lever farligt'' (screenwriter) *1998 – '' Under solen'' (screenwriter) *2001 – '' Sprängaren'' (screenwriter) *2003 – '' Paradiset'' (screenwriter) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hald, Johanna Swedish film directors Swedish women film directors Living people Swedish screenwriters 1945 births Swedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin
Elisabeth Ohlson (born 28 May 1961) is a Swedish photographer and an artist. In her works she often photographs representatives of LGBT people. Ohlson, a lesbian, is most noted for her exhibition '' Ecce homo'' which portrayed Jesus among gay and transgender people. The scenes were modern versions of stories of the New Testament, such as Jesus riding a bicycle in a gay parade, paralleling the triumphal entry of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. With the work, Ohlson wanted to remind people that Jesus worked with and helped the outcasts of the society. She had the idea when one of her friends died of AIDS in the early 1990s. The first ''Ecce Homo'' exhibition was held in Stockholm in 1998. Later an exhibition was held in Uppsala Cathedral which the archbishop K. G. Hammar had approved. Later ''Ecce Homo'' toured around the world. An Ecce Homo exhibition opened on 3 October 2012 in Belgrade, Serbia, then the only city in that part of Europe in which an exhibition of ''Ecce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnie Moberg
Gun Margoth Moberg (8 May 1941 – 31 October 2007) was a Swedish photographer and artist who worked in Scotland. Her work includes photographs featuring the Orkney, Shetland, and Faroe Islands. Biography Gunnie Moberg was born on 8 May 1941 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her father Åke Moberg was an accountant, and her mother Margot Lundblad was an amateur painter. Gunnie left school at the age of 16 in order to pursue artistic photography. She began by working at a photographer's studio in Gothenburg but moved to Edinburgh, Scotland a year later. In Edinburgh she worked as an au pair and studied pottery at the Edinburgh College of Art, where she met Californian artist Tam MacPhail. They married in January 1961 and had four sons. They initially settled in Argyll, but later moved to Orkney in 1976, after Gunnie Moberg's visit in 1975. Her husband ran a bookshop in Stromness called 'Stromness Books & Prints', which published her first photography book in 1979. Between 1977 and 1979, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuija Lindström
Tuija Lydia Elisabeth Lindström (5 May 1950 – 26 December 2017) was a Finnish-Swedish photographer, artist and professor of photography at School of Photography and Film, University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1992–2001. She lived and worked in Stockholm, Sweden. In the early 1990s, she became very noted for her black and white pictures of women floating in a black lake, known as ''Girls at Bull's Pond''. Her pictures at this time addressed feminist issues but from a different perspective than has previously been customary in Sweden. She has held several international exhibitions and is represented in particular at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Houston Art Museum in the U.S., and Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. Her 2012 exhibition ''A Dream If Ever There Was One'' at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg presented an overview of her work including landscapes, portraits, nudes and still lifes in collaboration with Helsinki's Finnish Museum of Photograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annika Larsson
Annika Larsson (born 1972 Stockholm, Sweden) is a photographer and video artist. Larsson received a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm. In 2002 she had a solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. In 2014 she had another solo exhibition at the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma in Rome. Her work was included in the 58th Venice Biennale. In an interview with the Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publish ... newspaper she said, "a cliché is something that we are supposed to see in a certain way. When you get close to it, it can have a new meaning - it is that twist I am interested in".Sue Hubbard (11 January 2005). 'Annika Larson: New Gravity'. ''The Independent Review''. References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelmina Lagerholm
Wilhelmina Catharina Lagerholm (1826–1917) was a Swedish painter and an early professional female photographer. After first studying and practising painting, she turned mainly to photography in 1862, opening a studio in Örebro in central Sweden. Life Born on 25 March 1826 in Örebro, Lagerholm was the daughter of the surveyor Nils Fredrik Wilhelm Lagerholm and his wife Anna Elisabeth Ekman. She studied art in Stockholm, Paris and Düsseldorf, becoming proficient as a portraitist. From 1862 to 1871, she worked as a photographer in Örebro but then moved to Stockholm where she became a portrait and genre painter. In 1871, she became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Lagerholm died in Stockholm on 19 June 1917. She is remembered as one of Sweden's earliest professional female professional along with Emma Schenson in Uppsala, Hilda Sjölin in Malmö and Rosalie Sjöman in Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Von Knorring
Caroline Gustafva Eleonora von Knorring (6 October 1841 – 4 August 1925) was a Swedish photographer and one of the first professional woman photographers in Sweden. Life and career Caroline was born in Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ..., Sweden at the von Knorring noble family. When her father failed in business, she was encouraged to take up photography as a profession. She moved from Gothenburg to Stockholm and opened a photo studio at Jakobsbergsgatan, which she ran between 1864 and 1871. Of Stockholm's one hundred registered photographers in the 1860s, there were only 15 women at that time. She has participated at the Industrial Exhibition in Stockholm in 1866. In 1872, she married Ehrenfried Roth, a wealthy politician. After marriage, she closed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Kinnberg
Marie Kinnberg (1806–30 March 1858) was a pioneering Swedish photographer and painter. In 1851, she learnt how to operate the daguerreotype process and the following year opened a studio in Gothenburg. Active as a portrait painter, Marie Kinnberg was a student of Bernhard Bendixen and Adolf Meyer, two photographers from Germany, who introduced the then new photographic technique with pictures on paper in Sweden, and gave lessons in this technique during their stay in Gothenburg in the summer of 1851. Marie Kinnberg thus belonged to the pioneers of the new photographic technique in Sweden when she opened her own professional studio in Gothenburg on 8 May 1852. Her study did not last many years, but she was a pioneer both as one of the first to use the new photographic art in Sweden, as well as one of the first women of her profession alongside Brita Sofia Hesselius Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801–1866) was a Swedish daguerreotype photographer. She was likely the first profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edit Kindvall
Edit Maria Kindval (21 July 1866 – 26 December 1951) was a Swedish teacher, photographer, women's rights activist and suffragist. After teaching in various locations from 1886, in 1901 she trained as a photographer, opening her own studio in Storvik in 1902. In 1907, she founded the local Storvik branch of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (LPKR), later becoming a member of the association's central board. Kindvall was also politically active in the Swedish People's Association and in the Moderate Party. Biography Born in Varberg on 21 July 1866, Edit Maria Kindvall was the daughter of the bookshop owner Karl Axel Kindvall (1832–1880) and his wife Anna Charlotta née Lindqvist (born 1834). She was the third in a family of five children. After the father's death, in 1881 the mother moved with the children from Tranås to Linköping but Edit returned to Tranås where she probably trained as a teacher. In 1886, Edit Kindvall moved to Finspång working as a teacher u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Jonn
Lina Jonn, birth name Carolina Johnsson, (1861–1896) was a Swedish professional photographer. Early life Jonn was born as Carolina Johnsson on 8 March 1861 in Stora Råby near Lund in Scania, south-western Sweden. Daughter of the farmer Jons Johnsson and his wife Hanna Pålsdotter, she was the sixth of seven children. When she was 16, Jonn found work as a governess on an estate near Höör. After studying German and French for a short period in Lund, in 1879 she went to Neuchatel, Switzerland, to continue her studies. In 1880, she moved to England where she taught music, languages and art. She contemplated becoming a physical education teacher but was unable to do so as a result of a back ailment. After spending a further period in Switzerland studying painting, she returned to Sweden where she became a photographer. Career Jonn appears to have learnt photography in Paris but her first professional work was in the Swedish city of Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Jacobsson
Selma Ida Jacobsson (27 January 1841, in Stockholm – 30 March 1899, in Stockholm) was a Swedish photographer. Selma Jacobsson was born to the merchant Levi Abraham Jacobsson and Sally Pohl, the sister of the opera singer Agnes Jacobsson and the architect Ernst Jacobsson, and married the Armenian linguist Norayr de Byzance in 1881. She was a student of Bertha Valerius. She opened her own photographic studio in Stockholm in 1872. She was a successful photographer with clients within the diplomatic corps and high society. In 1899, she was appointed "Kungl. Hoffotograf" ('Photographer of the Royal Court'). Gallery File:Allan Abenius, HjS 1-38.JPG, Allan Abenius. File:Zelma Lindqvist, porträtt - SMV - H9 017.tif, Zelma Lindqvist, actress. File:Prinsessan Terese, Svenskt porträttgalleri.jpg, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (21 December 1836 – 9 November 1914) was a Princess of Saxe-Altenburg by birth and a Princess of Sweden and N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
