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Titre(s) : Starman [Texte imprimé] : Sophus Tromholt, photographs 1882-1883 / Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad & Solveig Greve
Publication : Oslo : Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 251 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
Text in English, with one chapter in Northern Sami.
Sophus Tromholt (1851-1896) was a teacher and northern lights researcher, but today
he is remembered first and foremost for a unique series of portraits of the Sámi
people living in and around Kautokeino in Norway's northernmost county Finnmark. 'Starman'
is the first book dedicated to Sophus Tromholt's photographs. For the first International
Polar Year in 1882-1883, Tromholt established a private northern lights observatory
in the village of Kautokeino. Throughout the winter, he conducted thorough observations,
hoping they would solve the mysteries of the aurora borealis. Intrigued, the locals
named him Násteolmmái: Starman. Despite repeated attempts, Tromholt had to give
up his ambition to photograph the northern lights and instead turned his camera to
document his surroundings: the landscape, the traditional life of the Sámi, and the
people he met and got to know. Today, his photographic portfolio including around
50 portraits of named individuals is a part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register,
one of only five photographic archives accepted into the programme. The authors have
worked with Tromholt's archive at the University of Bergen Library for a number of
years. Here, they situate Tromholt's photographic practice in a historic context,
including discussions of the development of travel photography, museological practices
and 19th century attitudes to indigenous people
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Fjellestad, Marthe Tolnes (1980-....). Éditeur scientifique
Greve, Solveig (1946-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Tromholt, Sophus (1851-1896)
Photographie de paysage -- Norvège -- 19e siècle
Lapons -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
779.364 81 (23e éd.) = Photographies - Recueils ou collections - Thème des paysages - Norvège
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-82-328-0236-4. - ISBN 8232802367
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471156073
Notice n° :
FRBNF47115607
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
