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Berg and Høeg lived life on their own terms, both as romantic partners in a time of little LGBTQ visibility and as business partners running a studio and publishing company.
Bolette Berg and Marie Hoeg ran a local photo studio in Norway in the late 19th century. Their radical, private portraits have made them cult figures of LGBTQ+ art history.
“The brutal reality is that women’s stories are made marketable – and some are more marketable than others,” Tate Modern curator Emma Lewis tells AnOther as she publishes her new sprawling new book, Photography – A Feminist History