The photographer was a young science student, and he photographed in the university area of the town. What we see is just a fragment of his pictures, but the comment tells us that he photographed mainly pretty young girls and male celebrities.
We know very little about his background. But the motifs suggests that he was fascinated by uptown life. Oslo was a very small town back then, he could have found working people just a few hundred meters away. -- MaritimTim 2009/3/21 Bob Sullivan <[email protected]>: > Cesar, > I know the principle of dressing up to leave the house, or go > downtown, or go to church, or ride on a plane. > I liked the pictures shown, but thought they were of 'uptown' streets. > They were interesting, but all the women and men were so well dressed. > I contrast this with my hobby interests in railroading. > Pictures of railroad folks from the 1850's thru 1900's are very different. > It's a whole different reality and a much grittier life. > Regards, Bob S. > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Cesar Matamoros II > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thank you for the link. I finally had some time to look at it. >> The one thing I found interesting was the fact that it was just street >> scenes. Not all photography has to be of some big event or some monumental >> scene or moment. These types of shots provides information to the present >> time as to what people looked like when they took to the streets. >> I know that 'culturally' while I was growing up we had clothes that we wore >> at home and what we wore when we went 'out' of the house. It came from when >> my parents grew up. You dressed 'up' to go to the 'city' to hide your >> 'lower' economic status. >> I recall having to 'dress up' while traveling on a plane. It shocked me the >> first time I saw my father board a plane without a tie and suit. >> These types of shots shows the world as it was. >> I often liked going to the Leica Gallery in NYC for that very reason. The >> shots may not have been the sharpest, but they were a snapshot of the world >> as it truly was... >> >> César >> Panama City, Florida >> >> Tim Øsleby wrote: >>> >>> Found three fascinating video clips about a young man Carl Størmer who >>> photographed young girls and celebrities with a hidden camera at the >>> streets of Oslo in 1893-96. For some obscure reason he ended his >>> street photography after 3 years. >>> The camera he used had a disk of six circular frames. He his it under >>> his vest, and often approached his "victim" with a smile. >>> >>> The third clip shows a gost like image of author Henrik Ibsen. Carl >>> Størmer must have been very fasinated by Ibsen, he is the subject in >>> eight pictures. >>> >>> >>> http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/03/19/magasinet/dokumentar/fotografi/film/ibsen/5351234/ >>> There are three film clips here. Hopefully you will be able to find >>> them at this norwegian page. >>> The red rectangle in ULH shows the clips into full screen. >>> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
