Elsa Garmann Andersen
Born21 November 1891
Bergen
Died12 September 1964 (1964-09-13) (aged 72)
Bergen
NationalityNorway
Alma materNorwegian University of Science and Technology

Elsa Garmann Andersen (21 November 1891 – 12 September 1964), sometimes referred to as Elsa Garmann-Anderssen, was a Norwegian amateur photographer and active in Bergen's Camera Club in the late 1920s. She was a qualified architect from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology but never practiced her profession, probably due to health problems.[1][2]

Works

Andersen's range of subjects was landscape, portrait, architecture, street photography, and still life. Most of all, she photographed the landscape in Hardanger, with which she had a close relationship. She had an uncle who was a district doctor in Lofthus, and she lived in his house every summer. The way she photographed was similar to what was common for amateur photographers in the 1920s and 1930s.[2] The camera clubs had their own aesthetics where they drew inspiration from the art of painting, and left parts of the image blurred and diffused.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "OMNIA - Elsa Andersson". www.omnia.ie. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  2. 1 2 "Elsa Garmann Andersen | PIC - Photographers' Identities Catalog". pic.nypl.org. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  3. ↑ Peter Larsen; Sigrid Lien (2007). Norsk fotohistorie - frå daguerreotypi til digitalisering (in Norwegian). Det Norske Samlaget. pp. 188–192. ISBN 978-82-521-6291-2.
  4. ↑ "Studentene fra 1910 : biografiske oplysninger samlet til 25-årsjubileet 1935". www.nb.no (in Norwegian). 1935. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
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