Professional and Amateur Photographers
Ida Häckner and Gunnar Lundh were consummate professionals. At the other end of the spectrum are skilled amateurs who photographed their relatives, friends and neighbors as they went about their daily and seasonal farm work. Swedes were as enthusiastic about the amazing power of photography to capture and preserve passing moments as their counterparts elsewhere. […]
How do we see gender in these photographs?
The large and varied body of photographs of women performing physical labor on Swedish farms during the early twentieth century that is available at digitaltmuseum.se conveys the multidimensional and flexible character of gender at work. Close cooperation between husbands and wives was common for some farm tasks, but other tasks were usually performed by women […]