Posts tagged photo history
Carte de Visite - No 1. Berta Hallgren

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll have seen that in February, I posted about a small photography bundle that I had purchased from a second hand shop in Gamla Stan, Stockholm. My haul consisted of five carte de visite and a Christmas issue of the magazine Femina. Upon scanning, I realised two of the cards I had bought were made by two different women owned photography studios! As it is Women’s History Month, what better way to end it with a dive into the histories of these photographers! When I started researching however, I ended up finding more information than anticipated so have decided to split this up into two parts! I wanted to do this a little different to the biographies and such that I have seen on other blogs, by giving you a look at the way I work.

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