Knud Knudsen (photographer)
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Norway
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's first professional photographers and a pioneer within Norwegian photography. His work includes images from most of Norway in his time and documents much of Norwegian history and ethnology in his photography career 1862 - 1900.
Knudsen was born in Odda
Odda
is a municipality and town in the county of Hordaland, Norway. Odda was separated from Ullensvang on 1 July 1913 and on 1 January 1964 Røldal was merged with Odda. The town of Odda is the centre of the landscape of Hardanger, located at the end of the Hardangerfjord.In 1927, Erling Johnson,...
, the son of a merchant who was also a pomologist
Pomology
Pomology is a branch of botany that studies and cultivates pome fruit, particularly from the genera Malus, Prunus and Pyrus belonging to the Rosaceae. The term is sometimes applied more broadly, to the cultivation of any type of fruit...
. His professional career started as a retail clerk in Bergen, and in 1862 he traveled to Reutlingen
Reutlingen
Reutlingen is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of April 2008, it has a population of 109,828....
to study pomology. He returned with an enthusiasm for photography the year after and opened his photography business in Bergen 1864.
Knud Knudsen left a large collection of wet and dry plate negatives, and numbers of albumin silver prints. The negative and print collection are at The Picture Collection, University of Bergen Library.
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