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Knud Knudsen (3 January 1832 – 21 May 1915) was one of
Knud Knudsen a Norwegian photographer pioneerThe Picture Collection, University of Bergen Library
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Knud Knudsen (3 January 1832 – 21 May 1915) was one of Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
's first professional photographers and a pioneer within Norwegian photography. His work includes images from most of Norway in his time and documents much of Norwegian history and ethnology in his photography career 1862–1900.
Knudsen was born in Odda, the son of a merchant who was also a pomologist
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. His professional career started as a retail clerk
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in Bergen
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, and in 1862 he traveled to Reutlingen
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to study pomology. He returned with an enthusiasm for photography the year after and opened his photography business in Bergen 1864.
Knud Knudsen left a collection of 13.500 wet and dry plate negatives, and about 20.000 of albumin silver prints. The negative and print collection are at The Picture Collection, University of Bergen Library.
Bibliography
*Walker Art Center, Friedman, Martin: ''The Frozen Image. Scandinavian photography.'' 1982 *Naomi Rosenblum: ''A World History of Photography.'' 1984 *Å.Digranes, S.Greve og O.Reiakvam:''Det norske bildet. Knud Knudsens fotografier 1864–1900'' 1988 *N.Morgenstern: ''Fotograf Knud Knudsen. Bilder fra en nylig oppdaget samling.'' 1989 *O.Reiakvam, ''Bilderøyndom, røyndomsbilde: fotografi som kulturelle tidsuttrykk'' 1997 *Heimatmuseum Reutlingen: ''Reise nach Reutlingen 1862. Stereoskopbilder des nerwegischen fotograafen Knud Knudsen.'' 1997 *Roger Erlandsen: ''Pas nu paa!: Nu tar jeg fra Huldet! Om fotografiets første hundre år i Norge - 1839-1940'' 2000 *Larsen, Peter og Lien, Sigrid: ''Norsk Fotohistorie. Fra daguerrotypi til digitalisering.'' 2007 *Ekeberg, Jonas og Østgaard Lund, Harald (red): ''80 millioner bilder. Norsk Kulturhistorisk fotografi 1855–2005.'' 2008External links
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