Аннотация:Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size SummaryFocusing on Ellisif Wessel's (1866–1949) landscape photographs from Northern Norway, the author seeks to engage critically with the photographer's images, and to expand the framework for reading these images to include perspectives of personal artistic exploration and aesthetics. Through a case study of the photograph Two Women in a Boat, the author argues that Wessel's engagement with photography was motivated by an intimate need for personal expression, as was the case with her poetry and political involvement later in life. Questioning the act of writing (photo) history, this article indicates historic and disciplinary conditions that have played a part in determining which kind of histories Wessel is included in and which histories she is absent from, emphasizing different modes of periphery vital to the writing of Northern histories.
