John Møller’s ‘Photographic Memory’–Professional Photography of Greenlandic Inuit and Danish Administrators at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The photograph depicts an indigenous Greenlandic seal hunter and member of the Inuit people. The picture was taken by a fellow Inuk named John Møller (1867–1935). With the photographic practices that he had learned from the Danish and the technology provided by the Danish colonial administration of...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Informa UK Limited
2022
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| Online Access: | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332747 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.80184 |
| Summary: | The photograph depicts an indigenous Greenlandic seal hunter and member of the Inuit people. The picture was taken by a fellow Inuk named John Møller (1867–1935). With the photographic practices that he had learned from the Danish and the technology provided by the Danish colonial administration of Greenland, Møller created a ‘photographic memory’ of the Greenlandic Inuit and a rare insight into the lives of an Arctic indigenous people at the turn of the twentieth century. Marie Skłodowska-Curie EU Horizon 2020 Grant 894466 |
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