Agnes Nyblin née Janson (25 January 1869 – 20 August 1945) was a

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photographer. She started a photography business in Bergen with her husband but he died in 1894. She ran the business until 1911.

Life

Norske komponister ved Musikkfesten i Bergen, 1898

Agnes Janson was born in 1869 to Jacob Neumann and Marthe Helene (born Schuman) Janson. She married the photographer

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and they created a studio in Bergen called "K. Nyblin". Her husband died in 1894, but she continued the business successfully. She became part of a growing number of female Norwegian photographers. The growth was made possible by a change in the law in 1866 which allowed women to have a business. The ''Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography'' is disparaging about the new group of female photographers but it identifies seven women whose work is of note including Marie Høeg in

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, Louise Abel in Christiania, Louise Wold in Holmestrand,

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in Lillehammer and Nyblin and

Hulda Marie Bentzen Hulda Marie Bentzen (1858–1930) was an early professional female Norwegian photographer who established studios in Bergen and Voss. Life Sjur Helgeland - violinist and composer Born on 18 December 1858 in Bergen, Bentzen was the daughter of t ...

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

. Nybin was chosen to be a

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in 1897. The photograph shown was taken at a music festival in 1898 and it records a meeting of many of Denmark's leading composers and musicians. Nybin retired in 1911. The business continued in the care of her younger brother, Helmich Janson, until four years after her death which was in 1945.Agnes Nyblin
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