Feminist strategies for changing the story: re-imagining Arctic exploration narratives through (the staging of) photographs, travel writing and found objects

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Figure 1. Illustration of Tonje Bøe Birkeland’s photobook The Characters. Courtesy the artist

Figure 2. Reproduction of double-page from the JOURNAL section in Tonje Bøe Birkeland’s photobook The Characters. Courtesy the artist

Figure 3. From left to right: Book cover illustrations of Amundsen’s My Life as An Explorer, Nansen’s Northern Mist, Farthest North and Eskimo Life (the last one Longmans, Green and Co. edition of 1893)

Figure 4. Character #I, Aline Victoria Birkeland, Plate #1 Aline 2009. Courtesy the artist

Figure 5. Reproduction of OBJECTS section in Tonje Bøe Birkeland’s photobook The Characters. Courtesy the artist

Figure 6. Detail from OBJECTS section (“Personal Belongings”) in Tonje Bøe Birkeland’s photobook The Characters. Courtesy the artist

Figure 7. Portrett av Roald Amundsen i polarutstyr (Portrait of Roald Amundsen with polar equipment), cabinet card, Daniel Georg Nyblinn photo studio, 1899, Courtesy National Library of Norway, Oslo

Figure 8. Roald Amundsen Wearing a Fur Lined Parka, Nome, Alaska, 1920, photographed by Lomen Bros., Courtesy National Library of Norway, Oslo

Figure 9. Fridtjof Nansen, albumen print, photographed by Henry Van der Weyde, 1896. Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, London

Figure 10. Roald Amundsen på ski, 07.03.1909, photographed by Anders Beer Wilse, Courtesy National Library of Norway, Oslo

Figure 11. Character #I, Aline Victoria Birkeland, Plate #5 Gullfjellet 2009. Courtesy the artist

Figure 12. From left to right: Magnetic Observations and A Chronometer Observation with the Theodolite published in Nansen’s Farthest North (Westminster: Constable, 1897); Dr. Simpson at the Magnetometer, published on page 115 of Ponting’s book The Great White South (1924)

Figure 13. Exhibition views from the exhibition commemorating Roald Amundsen’s disappearance into the ice 1928, Polar Museum, Tromsø

Figure 14. Drawer with geological specimen from the E. Robert collection deriving from the La Recherche expedition to Scandinavia, Laponia, Spitsbergen and the Faroe Islands 1838–40. Courtesy / Copyright Pierre Sans-Jofre / Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris

Figure 15. Character #I, Aline Victoria Birkeland, Plate #8 Von Post 2009. Courtesy the artist

Figure 16. Peder Balke, Kystlandskap (Coastal Landscape), presumed 1860s, oil on paper, glued on wooden plate, 34 × 52 cm. Photo: Børre Høstland. Courtesy The National Museum of Norway

Figure 17. Harald Sohlberg, Vinternatt i Rondane (Winter Night in the Mountains), 1914, oil on canvas, 160 × 180 cm. Photo: Børre Høstland. Courtesy The National Museum of Norway

Figure 18. Character #I Aline Victoria Birkeland, Plate #12 Hiorthfjellet 2009. Courtesy the artist

Figure 19. From left to right: The Home of the Echoes, published on page 149 of Ponting’s book The Great White South (1924); Isbarieren, 1911 (reproduced by Anders B. Wilse from Amundsen’s South Pole expedition); Seal Hunting. The Captain on the Lookout, published on page 213 of Nansen’s book The First Crossing of Greenland (1890); Detail from William Bradford’s book The Arctic Regions (1873)