Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to photography in the Arctic |
| The need for photography |
| 2 | Letter from John Herschel to Daguerre (1 August 1939) |
| Indigenous inhabitants |
| 3 | Inuit |
| 4 | Alaska: Indigenous peoples |
| 5 | Greenland: indigenous peoples |
| 6 | Sápmi: Lapps (Sami or Saami) |
| Photographers |
| 7 | Richard Beard: British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition (1845-1848) |
| 8 | Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin |
| 9 | Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield: Inglefield Expedition (1850s) |
| 10 | Dr. Isaac I. Hayes: [Greenland Expedition] (ca 1859) |
| 11 | William Bradford, John Dunmore and George Critcherson: The Arctic Regions (1873) |
| 12 | Thomas Mitchell: The British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876) |
| 13 | Geraldine Moodie: Inuit |
| 14 | Richard Harrington: The Canadian Arctic (1948-1953) |
| Expeditions |
| 15 | Richard Basso: Graf Wilczek'sche Polar-Expedition (1882-1883) |
| 16 | The Greely Arctic Exploring Expedition (1881-1884) |
| 17 | Budtz Müller & Co.: The schooner FYLLA's Greenland voyage (1884) |
| 18 | Fridtjof Nansen: First crossing of Greenland (1888) |
| 19 | Robert E. Peary: Greenland Expedition (1893-1895) |
| 20 | Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897) |
| 21 | Albert Peter Low: The Canadian North |
| 22 | Marie Antoinette Czaplicka: Yenesei River Expedition, Siberia, Russia (1914-15) |
| 23 | Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia (1928) |
