Preus Museum News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In Norway, From Nature foregrounds creatives who are not aiming to make provocative statements, but address today’s most critical issues.

In his efforts to expose New York’s poverty-stricken underbelly, Jacob August Riis produced some of the most iconic photographs of the late 19th century.

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 Sámi on Camera Photographs of the Sámi taken in the 19th and 20th centuries act as ‘emotional archives’, offering an alternative history of Europe’s longest surviving indigenous people.   Skolt Sámi man in Sevettijärvi, Inari municipality, Finland. Photograph by Ernest Dixon, 1950s. Courtesy of the Sámi Museum Siida, Finland. At the end of the last Ice Age, more than 10,000 years ago, groups of hunter-gatherers ventured into northern Scandinavia, becoming the region’s first inhabitants. From southern Norway, the Fosna – descendants of the nomadic Ahrensburg cul...