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Jacob Holdt (born 29 April 1947) is a Danish photographer, writer and lecturer.His mammoth work, American Pictures, gained international fame in 1977 for its effective photographic revelations about the hardships of America's lower classes.
One of the few professions considered suitable for women at the time was photography. Wrensted learnt the craft in the 1880s from her aunt, Charlotte Borgen, who was a photographer in Frederikshavn. She then opened a studio of her own in Horsens which she ran for a few years before emigrating to the United States with her mother in 1894.
Haraldskær Woman on display in a glass-covered sarcophagus in Vejle, Denmark. The Haraldskær Woman (or Haraldskjaer Woman) is the name given to a bog body of a woman preserved in a bog in Jutland, Denmark, and dating from about 490 BC (pre-Roman Iron Age). [1] [2] Workers found the body in 1835 while excavating peat on the Haraldskær Estate.
H. Tønnies: Jens Bangs Stenhus in Aalborg (1890). The technique of carte de visite photography was brought to Denmark by Rudolph Striegler in 1860. It spread rapidly and by the 1870s provided a cheap and attractive alternative to portrait painting for photographers such as Ludvig Grundtvig (1836–1901) and Adolph Lønborg (1835–1916) in Copenhagen, and Heinrich Tønnies (1856–1903) who ...
Here, the best photos of the Danish royals through the years. January 2024 Princess Mary and Prince Frederik attend the traditional new year reception, after Queen Margrethe made her shock ...
Frærmose Woman Denmark Undetermined: Male 1842 The foot was unearthed four feet under the surface of the bog. A well preserved wool garment and a shoe were found with the human remains. [15] The foot was initially thought to have belonged to a woman based on its small size, but recent studies now suggest that the foot belonged to a man. [16]
Buzzy Trine Dyrholm series “The Danish Woman” will be making its international debut at Series Mania’s International Panorama section in March. Dyrholm, currently in the midst of the Oscar ...
Thanks to a Danish grant, she was able to travel to the United States, where she studied photographic techniques at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. In 1976, she became a National Geographic staff photographer, publishing more than 30 stories including features on Hans Christian Andersen , the Vikings and "Civilized Denmark ...