Performing academic Masculinity in the Arctic: Sophus Tromholt and Roland Bonaparte’s photographic accounts of Sámi peoples and Northern landscapes

• Published in: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
• Main Author: Sigrid Lien
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018
• Subjects: Photography; painting; visual representation; Sámi culture; indigenous portraits; Arctic expeditions; academic masculinity; Sophus Tromholt; Roland Bonaparte; Arts in general; NX1-820; Aesthetics; BH1-301; Arctic; Bonaparte; Roland; Sámi
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2018.1498677; https://doaj.org/article/c3f6d2d9e5464904987c835f1045c9b8

This article discusses photographs of Sámi people produced in 1883 and 1884 by the Danish-Norwegian scholar and photographer Sophus Tromholt (1851–1896) and G. Roche, the expedition photographer of the French prince, Roland Bonaparte (1858–1924). While Tromholt’s photographs have been understood as...