The Photographer
There are many points of entry into the history of photography. This exhibition focuses on the roles and practices of Norwegian photographers from 1940 and until the present.
Studio Pan, 1964. Preus Museum collection
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Preus museum is Norway's National Museum of Photography
The museum was founded in 1995 when the Norwegian Government bought the collections that belonged to Preus Fotomuseum, a private museum. The Norwegian State is the owner of the museum. In May 2001 the museum moved into Magasin A at Karljohansvern in Horten, about one hours drive from Oslo. The interior decoration is drawn by Architect Sverre Fehn. The collections contains photographies, ather kind of images, cameras and other technical equipment that shed light on the history of photography. There is a wide representation of the international history of photography in the image collection. Preus museum's library holds international standard.
Slow Color Photography
Richard Gustav Neuhauss (1855-1915). "Garten im Grosslichterfelde. Bootstr.17" [original title]. Lippmann process aka interferential color photography. Object size: 120 mm x 89 mm. Glass plate with wedge prism at 10 degree angle. 1901. Albert Narath Collection. Preus Museum.
(photo: Ana Gonçalves/Preus museum).
Opening hours 2021
July
Tuesday – Sunday 11-16
Jan - June / August - Dec
Wednesday – Friday 11-15
Saturday – Sunday 11-16
The museum has regular opening hours in autumn-, winter- and easterbreak
Visit:
Kommandørkaptein Klincks vei 7
Karljohansvern
NO-3183 Horten
Keep the date! Exhibition opening
The exhibition Over the Rainbow is based on the museum's collection of Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg's private photographs and asks:
What kind of exhibition do we think Marie and Bolette would have appreciated?
© Line Ørnes Søndergaard, SPOR // TRACE #1, 2020
Stikkesporing
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A history of photography
The exhibition gives an acquaintance with the pre-photographic technologies where the idea of an image was created, then moves to the enormous breadth of experimentation and research that has led all the way to current digital images.
Leif Preus, Selvportrett fotografert med Suttons panoramakamera, 1974. Preus museums samling
The Collector Leif Preus
Do you miss Leif Preus and the old Preus Photo Museum? Or, on the contrary, you might wonder why the national photo museum is called Preus Museum? Why does one of the world’s biggest and most precious photo collections exist in Horten?
This small exhibition might give you the answers!