The book is finally sent to print, and we could not be prouder (or more exhausted)! 🤩🥵🫠 @thalesorlie.bsky.social @haraldol.bsky.social

«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway. 📸

Thank you @beapichel.bsky.social and the rest of the #PHRC team for two interesting days at the #PHRC25 conference "Photography, Value, History". Illustrated by @thalesorlie.bsky.social
excellent paper on how photography was valued by the Norwegian government after WW2. #photohist

Happy International Women’s Day! Marking the day by attending the wonderful 24-hour conference «Women of photography» organized by @roseteanby.bsky.social and Kris Belden-Adams 🙌🏼🫶🏻👏🏻 📷Ørnelund/Oslo museum

I’m preparing a talk on the marketing of cameras and I’m thinking that the Norwegian Kodak girl was sensible to take the cold climate into account and wear a warm sweater. 📸🤓

During «fall cleaning» at the museum we found this Gollum-looking #photographer on one of the photo wallets. 👀😬📷

Preparing my talk for #PHRC24 📸📸Thrilled to be able to share my research on how the Norwegian photofinishing industry relied on “housewife’s” in the 1960s and 70s. #photohist #kodak

I rekken av spennende fotoutstillinger denne våren: ikke gå glipp av kuratoromvisning, ved kunsthistoriker Øivind Storm Bjerke, i Bogstad Gård sin nye utstilling "Godseierens blikk - Westye Parr Egebergs fotografier 1899-1954" søndag 28. april! bogstad.no/bogstad-spes...

Ikke gå glipp av muligheten til en kuratoromvisning i vandreutstillingen "Fra vest mot nord - Norsk og amerikansk landskapsfotografi" på Norsk Folkemuseum, med kuratorene Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad og Shannon Egan søndag 5. mai! 📷🤩https://norskfolkemuseum.no/kuratoromvisning-fra-vest-til-nord

Norwegian photographer Per Renbjør buying film from a vending machine while attending the photo fair Photokina in Köln 1951 🫶🏻🧡🎞️#photohist #agfacolor 📸Levanger fotomuseum

Don’t forget to bring film on your Easter holiday! 🐣 🎞️ Advertisement from Kodaks Norwegian distributor J.L.Nerlien, from The Historical Kodak Collection, British Library #photohist #kodak

The Norwegian translation of “How to Make Good Pictures: The Kodak Manual for Amateur Photographers” from 1940 included a whole section on how to photograph in the high mountains during Easter holiday. 🤓📸🙌🏼

Preparing a talk about Easter 🐣, the photographic high season in Norway, when we all go skiing in the high mountains. 🏔️☀️⛷️ Throughout the 20th century this was one of the most photographed family events. 📸 Fritjof Arentz