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Agnes Nyblin née Janson (25 January 1869 – 20 August 1945) was a
Agnes Janson was born in 1869 to Jacob Neumann and Marthe Helene (born Schuman) Janson. She married the photographer Karl Anton Peter Dyrendahl Nyblin and they created a studio in Bergen called "K. Nyblin". Her husband died in 1894, but she continued the business successfully.
She became part of a growing number of female Norwegian photographers. The growth was made possible by a change in the law in 1866 which allowed women to have a business. The ''Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography'' is disparaging about the new group of female photographers but it identifies seven women whose work is of note including
Retrieved 21 May 2016
Norwegian
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photographer. She started a photography business in Bergen with her husband but he died in 1894. She ran the business until 1911.
Life
Agnes Janson was born in 1869 to Jacob Neumann and Marthe Helene (born Schuman) Janson. She married the photographer Karl Anton Peter Dyrendahl Nyblin and they created a studio in Bergen called "K. Nyblin". Her husband died in 1894, but she continued the business successfully.
She became part of a growing number of female Norwegian photographers. The growth was made possible by a change in the law in 1866 which allowed women to have a business. The ''Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography'' is disparaging about the new group of female photographers but it identifies seven women whose work is of note including Marie Høeg
Marie Høeg (15 April 1866 – 22 February 1949) was a Norwegians, Norwegian photographer and Suffragette, suffragist. Høeg's published work was traditional in nature, while her private photography, including images of and created with her p ...
in Horten
is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand an ...
, Louise Abel in Christiania, Louise Wold in Holmestrand, Augusta Solberg
Augusta Charlotte Solberg (1856–1922) was an early Norwegian professional photographer who managed a studio in Bergen from 1885.
Biography
Born in Bergen on 1 August 1856, Solberg was the daughter of the ferryman and police constable Anders Sol ...
in Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...
and Nyblin and Hulda Marie Bentzen in Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
. Nybin was chosen to be a police photographer
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and t ...
in 1897.
The photograph shown was taken at a music festival in 1898 and it records a meeting of many of Denmark's leading composers and musicians.
Nybin retired in 1911. The business continued in the care of her younger brother, Helmich Janson, until four years after her death which was in 1945.Agnes NyblinRetrieved 21 May 2016
References
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