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Featured on PDR in the collection The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)

Excerpts from a dazzling image collection, discovered in a Norwegian barn in the 1980s, that experiments with the presentation of gender.

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Also appearing in the collection…

Marie Høeg as a young boy with a cigarette

Date

ca. 1895–1903


Source

Flickr: The Commons / Preus Museum

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Public Domain Worldwide

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Image Size

1140 x 1689

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Themes

  • Emotion & Expression
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  • victorian sexuality
  • homosexuality
  • smoking
  • artist studio
  • cigarettes
  • cross-dressing
  • play
  • women

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