page_title: Photography in Denmark
section_title: Growing popularity
hierarchical_section_title: Photography in Denmark / History / Growing popularity
caption_attribution_description: Hochbrucke Square, Copenhagen, Denmark, between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. da: Højbro Plads i København mellem 1890 og 1900; bemærk ruinen af det andet Christiansborg i baggrunden. 1 photomechanical print&#160;: photochrom, color. Notes: Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich.&#160;: Detroit Publishing Company, c1905. Print no. 6390. Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites in Copenhagen, Denmark in the Photochrom print collection. Subjects: Denmark--Copenhagen. Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Views of architecture and other sites in Copenhagen, Denmark (DLC) 2001697980 More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.05756 Call Number: LOT 13421, no. 011 [item]
context_page_description: Photography in Denmark has developed from strong participation and interest in the very beginnings of the art in 1839 to the success of a considerable number of Danes in the world of photography today.
  Pioneers Mads Alstrup and Georg Emil Hansen paved the way for a rapidly growing profession during the last half of the 19th century while both artistic and press photographers have made internationally recognized contributions. Although Denmark was slow to accept photography as an art form, Danish photographers are now increasingly active, participating in key exhibitions around the world.
  Among Denmark's most successful contemporary photographers are Jacob Aue Sobol, who gained recognition for portraits of his Greenlandic girlfriend, and Per Bak Jensen, who introduced a new perspective to modern landscape photography. Press photography has prospered too under Jan Grarup and Claus Bjørn Larsen, who have covered wars and conflicts of global importance over the past 20 years.
context_section_description: Thanks to the increasing availability of simpler techniques, amateur photography gained popularity at the beginning of the 20th century. Sigvart Werner and Julius Møller were among the many who were influenced by the pictorialist trend, concentrating on pictorial landscape and genre photography.
  From the 1890s, the Detroit Publishing Company used the Photochrom technique based on chromolithography to produce a large number of colour postcards, many of European cityscapes. In their collection, there are several views of Copenhagen taken between 1890 and 1900.
  Benefitting from the advent of postcards, Mary Willumsen (1884–1961) photographed women in scanty clothing or nude at the Helgoland beach facility in Copenhagen. Between 1916 and 1920, she took many such photographs which she sold at a nearby kiosk. The operation was discontinued when the police began to take an interest. Many of the compositions are now considered to have considerable artistic merit.
caption: PhotoChrom postcard: Højbro Plads, Copenhagen c. 1895. Unknown author
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