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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ftunivcam:oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/332747 2024-01-14T10:04:27+01:00 John Møller’s ‘Photographic Memory’–Professional Photography of Greenlandic Inuit and Danish Administrators at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Gielas, AM 2022-01-07T15:04:09Z application/pdf https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332747 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.80184 eng eng Informa UK Limited Scott Polar Research Institute http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2021.2004706 Photography and Culture https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332747 doi:10.17863/CAM.80184 Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 3601 Art History Theory and Criticism 36 Creative Arts and Writing Article 2022 ftunivcam https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.80184 2023-12-21T23:29:41Z 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 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland greenlandic inuit Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository Arctic Greenland |
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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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John Møller’s ‘Photographic Memory’–Professional Photography of Greenlandic Inuit and Danish Administrators at the Turn of the Twentieth Century |
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