Visualising invisibility: photography and physical anthropology in Norway1

• Published in: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
• Main Author: Hilde Wallem Nielssen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018
• Subjects: photography; physical anthropology; race; Sámi peoples; Arts in general; NX1-820; Aesthetics; BH1-301; Tysfjord; Lule Sámi
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2018.1498672; https://doaj.org/article/2646dbb3d08847fa8dcce21ca7ee948d

This article explores how photographs of Sámi peoples were used in the context of Norwegian physical anthropology in the interwar period, but also how they are re-appropriated in the Lule Sámi community in Tysfjord today. It also demonstrates how photography as used in in the Norwegian racial resear...