Sigrid Lien
Position
Professor, History of art/ history and theory of photography/ visual culture
Affiliation
Research groups
Research
Sigrid Lien is a professor of art history at the University of Bergen, where she has had a permanent position since 2002. Lien researches modern art and contemporary art, and also has expertise in the field of museology. However, her primary specialty is the history and theory of photography.
Lien's work has for years been centered on visual culture, and photography in particular. In the beginning of her academic career, she was the first to offer history and theory of photography as a university course in Norway. She initiated the first cross-disciplinary, nationally funded research project on photography, she wrote the first volume on Norwegian history of photography, and a pioneering study of the role of photography in the Norwegian history of migration. Photography has also, over the years, led her into the internationally expanding fields of museology, and post-and decolonial studies.
In Liens recent project Negotiating History: Photography in Sámi Culture, she have fronted a novel understanding of the Arctic as an inhabited space, collaborating extensively with the major international scholars in this field. Importantly, this research has also led her to explore how photography as visual culture is embedded in a wider context – a cluster of paradoxes and conflict lines that cuts through the Arctic. Furthermore, it has made her aware of the necessity to transcend specific scientific disciplinary borders and national boundaries – and thus to initiate a SFF-initiative as a first major humanities-driven attempt of understanding why and how the Arctic has become such a potent a site of concurrent visions of the past, future and present: Visions of the Arctic.
Teaching
Lien teaches modern art and contemporary art. Her primary specialty is the history and theory of photography.
Supervision of PhD-students:
2014–2017
Supervisor for Kjellaug Isaksen, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
2013–2015
Supervisor for Pauline Hoath, Department for Information and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
2010–2015
Supervisor for Tove Haugsbø, Phd student, Art history, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
2010–2014
Supervisor for Anne Hege Simonsen, Phd student, Art history, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
2007–2011
Supervisor Christine Hansen, Phd student Art history, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
2008–2012
Supervisor for Mathias Danbolt, Phd student, Art history, Department ofLinguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
Publications
Academic lecture
- Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Lien, Sigrid (2023). Camera Encounters: Nation-building, Colonialism and the Everyday Life of Settler Women in Northern Norway . (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2022). Unesco Memory of the World and the Representations of Sámi peoples in 19th Century Photography Archives: Sophus Tromholt and Roland Bonaparte.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Sandbye, Mette (2022). Activating Absences: Methodological Reflections on the Lost Archives of Early Women Photographers in Denmark and Norway. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2022). Negotiating research: Studying Sámi Photographs as Norwegian Outsiders . (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2021). Key-note foredrag: «Du blir ikke musiker selv om du kjøper deg et instrument»: Studiofotografiet og den digitale revolusjon". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2021). Key-note lecture: Buying an Instrument Does Not Necessarily Make You a Musician: Studio Photography and the Digital Revolution.. (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Lien, Sigrid (2021). Negotiating research: Studying Sámi Photographs as Norwegian Outsiders. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2020). Key-note: Colonial Heritage and Decolonial Activism: New Challenges in Photography Research. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2020). Kolonial arv og dekolonial aktivisme – fotografiforskningens nye utfordringer. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2020). «Fotohistoriens blinde felter: Kvinnelige fotografers fravær representert gjennom historien om Solveig Lund». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2020). Fotopionéren Ole Tobias Olsen - i fotohistorisk sammenheng. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2019). When the Archive becomes a Shrine and the Archivists Hagiographers: The Institutional Afterlife of Sophus Tromholt’s Photographs of Sámi Peoples.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Sandbye, Mette; Anna, Tellgren et al. (2019). Striving for independence: Women Photographers in Nordic Studio Culture, 1860-1920. . (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2019). The Institutional Afterlives of Photographs of Sámi Peoples. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2018). “The Politics of Silence in Marja Helander’s Photography and Film Production”.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Fotografiet i samisk kultur.. (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Lien, Sigrid (2017). Camera Encounters: Norwegian Bourgeois Women's Adventures in Sámi Areas. (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Lien, Sigrid (2017). Norges dokumentarv og internasjonal forskning: Fotografier fra Sápmi – noen forskningsperspektiver . (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Colonial Pasts and Forbidden Love: Historical Fictions spurred by an unknown painting.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2017). Presentasjon av "Museumsforteljingar: Vi og dei andre i kulturhistoriske museum". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Utvikling- sett i relasjon til museets utstillingsfortellinger. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Silence of Lost Knowledge – The Sámi Artist Marja Helander’s “Jaskes eatnamat”. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Pictures of Longing: Migration photographs as grass-root stories. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Colonial Shame and Bourgeois Pride: The Story of an Unknown Painting. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). “With a nervously beating heart”: Aesthetics and Politics in the Works of the Norwegian pioneer photographer Solveig Lund.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2016). Sáminess seen from Berlin: The Photographic Archive of Museum Europäischer Kulturen II. . (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Lien, Sigrid (2016). Sáminess seen from Berlin: The Photographic Archive of Museum Europäischer Kulturen. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2016). Multi-Layered Museum Stories: Exhibitions in the Intersection between Academic Disciplinary History, Politics and Aesthetics . (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2016). Imagining Sámi people through the camera: Abundance and photographic messiness as in a German museum archive . (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). Scrutinizing Lives and Bodies: Photography between Nation-building and Ethnology. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). Performing Academic Masculinity: Sophus Tromholt and Roland Bonaparte's phtographic accounts of Sámi People and Northern Landscapes.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). “Time journeys”: Encountering photographs of Sámi peoples/ «Des Lapons" in French Collections.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). Sámi pasts – industrial presence: Spatial and poetic negotiations of history in Bente Geving’s work Down Under Up North. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). “Assimilating the Wild and Primitive: Lajla and other Sámi Heroines in Norwegian fin de siècle-photography”. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). Sami people as seen through the early photographic work of Marcus Selmer (1819-1900). (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). Norway's radical Other - or just one of many others? Sámi people in the photographs by Marcus Selmer. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). ‘We Only Have These Marks in the Landscape:’ The Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Landscape Photography in Sámi Nation Building. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). “The New Social”: Reflections on the Power of Speaking Through Photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). “Last Seen Alone on the Prairie”: Migration, Invisible Women Photographers, and Historiographical Challenges. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). Visions of the Past: Mapping and Reading Historical Photographs of Sámi people. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). Visions of the Past: Mapping and Reading Historical Photographs of Sámi People.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2013). The Beauty in the Frame: Ballet Russe in Scandinavian Visual Culture. (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde; Lien, Sigrid (2013). "PhotoClec – noen erfaringer fra et museologisk forskningsprosjekt?". (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde; Lien, Sigrid (2012). Konvensjonell etnografisk utstilling eller subversiv estetikk? Historiefortelling ved samiske museer i Norge. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde (2012). Museet som sted for alternative historiefortellinger. Utstillingspraksisen ved RDM/SVD. (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde; Lien, Sigrid (2012). Museumsfortellinger: Tale og taushet i kulturhistoriske utstillinger. Keynote-forelesning. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2012). Tracing narratives in the museum space: Contemporary Sami art as an Arena for Post-colonial Experiences. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2012). Tema fra Lengselens bilder - fotografiet i historien om norsk amerikautvandring. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2012). Fortellingen om Norge som museal konstruksjon: estetikk, narrasjon og historiesyn i "Langsomt ble landet vårt eget" på Maihaugen, Lillehammer. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde (2012). Fravær og nærvær: bruken av fotografi i det samiske museet i Karasjok. (external link)
- Hilde, Nielssen; Lien, Sigrid (2012). Key-note foredrag: Museumsfortellinger: Tale og taushet i norske kulturhistoriske utstillinger. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde (2011). Conventional Ethnographic Display or Subversive Aesthetics? Historical Narratives of the Sami National Museum in Norway. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2011). ”Shame and Pride: Colonial Past exhibited in Bergen”. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2011). ”The meaning of it all': Poetry and politics in Peter Rosendahl’s photographs from Spring Grove, Minnesota”. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2011). “Boats or forbidden love? Exhibiting colonial past in the museum”. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2011). ”Samekvinnen i monteren: Fotografiets rolle i den museale representasjon av samisk historie og identitet”. (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde; Lien, Sigrid (2010). Stories told through images: Photography as an entrance to the colonial past. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Kunsten å gå på kunstutstilling. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). ”Lengselens bilder. Fotografiet i historien om den norske amerikautvandringen”. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Faglig ansvarlig for konferanse i NordForsknettverket "Visions of the past", Solstrand, Bergen, 04.09-07.09.09. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Josefas album.Fra prosjektet Lengselens bilder. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Vågnes, Øyvind; Grønstad, Asbjørn (2009). Amerikabilder. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Daguerreotypi i Bergen. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Lengselens bilder. Fotografiet i historien om den norske amerikautvandringen. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2008). Lengselens bilder. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2008). The presence of the past and the sense of belonging: Peter Rosendahl’s photographs from Spring Grove, Minnesota. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2008). Alene på prærien. Fotohistoriens usynlige kvinner. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2007). Revisions of the History of Photography as we already Know it? Reflections on the Issue of Writing Local or National Histories of Photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2007). Prosjektpresentasjon: "Lengselens bilder - en studie av Amerikafotografiet". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2007). Last seen alone on the prarie": The history of photography and the invisible women. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Reme, Eva (2007). Pictures of Longing. The Photographic Culture of Norwegian US Immigrants. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2007). Stories about invisibility and stardom. Accounting for the position of female photographers in the Norwegian History of Photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2007). On writing a Norwegian History of Photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Reme, Eva (2007). Pictures of Longing: A Study of "Amerikafotografiet". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2007). «Om å skrive Norsk Fotohistorie». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2006). « From the margins to canonisation: Photography in the Norwegian art arena 1971-2005». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2006). «Memories of Grandma's Place: The visual family chronicle as an entrance to the history of the Norwegian U.S Emigration». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2006). «Fotografi som estetisk objekt og historisk dokument: Andreas Larsen Dahls fotografier av norske utvandrere i Wisconsin». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2006). «Norsk fotohistorie frå daguerreotypi til digitalt bilde». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2006). «Fra marginalisering til kanon - tendenser i nyere norsk fotokunst». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2006). Fotografi som estetisk objekt og historisk dokument: Andreas Larsen Dahls fotografier av norske utvandrere i Wisconsin». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2005). «Just another Boring Tree? Landscape Photography in Norway and the Concept of Photographic Specificality». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Reme, Eva (2005). «Lengslens bilder: Amerikafotografiet som inngang til emigrasjonshistorien». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Reme, Eva (2004). "Vær så God og send os deres Pottreter. Relasjonen amerikabilde-og brev". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2004). "The Wild Duck and other Stories - The Discourse on Photography in Nineteenth Century Norway". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2004). Fotohistoriske tema. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2004). "The Spesifically Norwegian about Norwegian Histories of Photography". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2003). America in the Photographs of Andreas Larsen Dahl. (external link)
- Reme, Eva; Lien, Sigrid (2003). "Vær saa God og send os deres Pottreter..." -relasjonen Amerikabilde- og brev. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Eva, Reme (2003). Lengselens bilder. Om å forske på Amerikabildet. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2002). The Aesthetics of Sports Photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2001). "Der energiene strømmer": Refleksjoner omkring fotografiets posisjon i samtidskunsten. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2001). Prosjektbeskrivelseskurs. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Fotografiet som forskningsobjekt og undervisningsemne. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). "Slap-dash and Strong Pictures. The Aesthetics of Rock and Pop Portraiture". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Fotohistorie som forskningsobjekt og undervisningsemne. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Øyeblikksbilder. Noen nedslag i fotografiets historie. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Reklameestetikk og idolbilder. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Kurs i fotohistorie. (external link)
Lecture
- Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Lien, Sigrid (2023). Adjusting the Lens. Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies and Photographic Heritage. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). Blikk på Europa: Kunstnersamtale i forbindelse med åpningen av Fritt Ords arrangement: European Photo Exhibition Award - The New Social - Nobels Fredssenter i Oslo kl. 17.00 mandag 3. mars. (external link)
Feature article
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2022). Plyndring og heft - om Kinasamlingen ved KODE, Bergen. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2021). Bilder fra glemselens dyp. . (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Lien, Sigrid (2019). Det som står på spill. Essay om Per Addes utstilling "Per Adde: Liv og virke", Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, august-september 2019. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Blinde flekker i kolonihistorien. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Åsebø, Sigrun (2017). Kunsten å skrive om kunst. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2015). De beksvarte krigsårenes kunst: Essay om Hamburger Bahnhofs store ustilling om krigstidens kunst i Hitlers Tyskland, november 2017.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). Fotojournalistisk sannhetsvitne: Om en utstilling av Germaine Krulls fotografier i Jeu de Paume, Paris, september/oktober 2015.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). Prostitusjon, prakt og elendighet. Essay om utstillingen "Splendeur & miséres i Musée d'Orsay, Paris, september 2015.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2007). Fotografiet i historien - historien i fotografiet. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2001). Det magiske virkelighetsbilde. Forskning om fotografiet. (external link)
Academic article
- Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Lien, Sigrid (2022). Knowing and Not Knowing: Addressing Chinese Objects in the Art Museum. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2021). «Undertrykkelsen har vært motbydelig for meg» Familiefotografi, fornorskning og aktivisme. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2021). Familiealbumet og de vanskelige fortellingene. Introduksjon til temanummer.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2020). Ragnhild’s Images: Migration, Settler Colonialism and Photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2019). ‘Permanent Displays’ as Unsettling Layers of Epistemologies, Politics and Aesthetics. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2018). Performing academic Masculinity in the Arctic: Sophus Tromholt and Roland Bonaparte’s photographic accounts of Sámi peoples and Northern landscapes.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Just Loafing Around: Peter Rosendahls Photographs from Spring Grove. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). Wandering in the world with a camera: The photographic art of Tom Sandberg.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). "What's the meaning of it all:" Poetry and Politics in Peter Rosendahl's Photographs from Spring Grove, Minnesota. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). Not "just a boring tree": The landscape as a marker of identity in Norwegian and Sámi photography.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). Norway: Photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde (2012). Conventional Ethnographic Display or Subversive Aesthetics? Historical Narratives of the Sami Museum, RiddoDuottarMuseat-Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat (RDM-SVD) in Karasjok, Norway. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde (2012). Absence and Presence: The Works of Photographs in the Sami Museum, RiddoDuottarMuseat-Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat (RDM-SVD) in Karasjok, Norway. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2011). Kolonial skam og borgerlig stolthet : historien om et ukjent maleri. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Tiden, stedet og historien : Oddleiv Apneseths fotografiske dagbok. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Tiden,stedet og historien - Oddleiv Apneseths fotografiske dagbok. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2005). «The Wild Duck and other stories. The Discourse of Photography in Nineteenth Century Norway». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2003). Sportsfotografiets estetikk. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2002). “The Aesthetics of Sports Photography”. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2001). "Not the proper way, but many proper ways to think about pictures". Intensjonalitet og historisk rekonstruksjon i Michael Baxandalls Patterns of Intention. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). "Slap-dash" og sterke bilder: Rock- og popkulturens fotografiske portretter. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Stedet som arena for kunstnerisk aktivitet. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Stedet som arena for kunstnerisk aktivitet. (external link)
Chapter
- Lien, Sigrid; Carville, Justin (2021). Introduction: Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and the United States.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2021). Searching for Oleana: Contemporary Photographic Negotiations of Migrations and Settler-Colonial Tropes. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Photography in Norway. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Hansen, Christine (2016). Norwegian Photography 1970-2000. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2016). Ballerinaen i fotografens studio: Waldemar Eides fotografier av Vera Fokina/The Ballerina in the Photographer's Studio: Waldemar Eide's Photographs of Vera Fokina. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). The New Social: Photographic Explorations of Contemporary Europe. (external link)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
- Lien, Sigrid; Carville, Justin (2021). Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and the United States. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2021). Adjusting the Lens. Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies, and Photographic Heritage. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Edwards, Elizabeth (2014). Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Serck-Hanssen, Caroline (2010). Talende bilder. Tekster om kunst og visuell kultur. (external link)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2021). Negotiating Research: studying Sámi photographs as Norwegian Outsiders.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2021). Introduction: Coloniality, Indigeneity and Photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2021). Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adventures in Sámi Areas of Norway. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2020). Sámi Silence Visualized: Indigenous Loss Negotiated in Contemporary Art. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Assimilating the wild and primitive: Lajla and other Sámi heroines in Norwegian fin-de-siècle photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). "Last Seen Alone on the Prairie" Migration, Photography and the Invisibility of Women. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Edwards, Elizabeth A. (2014). Museums and the Work of Photographs. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde (2014). Museet som sted for alternative historiefortellinger. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2014). The Aesthetics of the Bear Hunt: Contemporary Photography in the Ecology of a Sámi Museum. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2013). ‘Buying an Instrument Does Not Necessarily Make You a Musician’: Studio Photography and the Digital Revolution. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Hansen, Christine (2013). Nordic Documentary Photography - Pictorial Practices in Transition?. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2012). Margit Ellinors bilder - samisk samtidsfotografi som arena for postkoloniale erfaringer. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Tiden,stedet og historien. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). The History of Norwegian Photography 1900-1938. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Kunsten å gå på kunstutstilling: Et møte med den vanskelige samtidskunsten. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Stories about Invisibility and Stardom: Accounting for the position of female photographers in the Norwegian history of photography. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Stars as Human Beings - and Timeless Icons: Pennie Smith's and Anton Corbijn's Artist Portraits. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2007). Varm visuell retorikk i kald krig: Noen kunsthistoriske betraktninger omkring etterkrigstidens russiske plakatkunst. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (1999). "Personlighet til skue: Kay A. Bergs fotografi og det moderne karakterportrettets tradisjon". (external link)
Doctoral dissertation
- Hoath, Pauline Ann; Grønstad, Asbjørn; Lien, Sigrid (2019). A Photographic View from Below. A Soldier's Story from the Mandates of Iraq and Palestine 1922-1926.. (external link)
- Haugsbø, Tove Kårstad; Lien, Sigrid (2015). Fortida gjennom notida. Nikolai Astrups kunst i nye perspektiv. (external link)
- Danbolt, Mathias; Lien, Sigrid (2013). Touching history. Art, Performance, and Politics in Queer Times. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (1999). "Slap-dash" og sterke bilder. En studie i punk-og postpunkperiodens estetikk. (external link)
Book review
- Lien, Sigrid (2019). Torild Gjesvik: Fotograf Knud Knudsen: Veien, reisen, landskapet. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Fargens skrift og fargens klang: Essay om Therese Christensens utstilling i Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, mai 2017.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem (2017). Leirbål og reinsdyrskrotter: Essay om utstillingen "Subsistence", Galleri Nord-Norge, Harstad, Festspillutstilling, festspillene i Nord-Norge, 2017.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Sverige - sett med amerikanske øyne. Anmeldelse av Jeff Werner(2008): Medelvägens estetik. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2003). Verk og ord. (external link)
Academic monograph
- Lien, Sigrid (2018). Pictures of Longing:Photography and the Norwegian–American Migration. (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Lien, Sigrid (2016). Museumsforteljingar. Vi og dei andre i kulturhistoriske museum. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Lengselens bilder : fotografiet i norsk utvandringshistorie. (external link)
Interview
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Når kunst låner fra kunst.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Bilder fra det nye livet.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2017). Kritisk til at dronningens kunst stilles ut i Bergen: Oppslag i Bergens Tidendes kultur/debattsider.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde Wallem; Strand, Hilde Kristin (2016). Ser på foto av dei europeiske indianarene.. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2015). Hvordan blir gamle samiske fotografier brukt?. (external link)
- Nielssen, Hilde; Lien, Sigrid (2012). Kulturnytt. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Nielssen, Hilde (2012). "Hvor er alle menneskene". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Bør dette vernes for ettertiden? Vern av grafittikunst. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Intervju på NRK-Vestlandsrevyen om Oddleiv Apneseths fotoprosjekt Jølster 2008. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2010). Koloniale erfaringer i Norge. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Intervju i tilknytningen til åpningen av utstillingen Lengselens bilder ved Haa Gamle Prestegård 25.04.2009. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Intervju i forbindelse med åpningen av utstillingen Lengselens bilder ved Haa Gamle Prestegård den 25.04.2009. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Lengselens bilder fra Amerika. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Amerikadrømmens bakside. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Bilder fra Amerika. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). På fotojakt i det norske Amerika. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Åkre så langt øyet kunne se. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Bestefar var cowboy i Amerika. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Kolbjørnsen, Mia (2008). "Nå reiser jeg til vakre Amerikaland". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2008). Lengselsbildene. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2008). De første fotofeministene. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2008). Kunstens gleder: I serien høstens gleder av Lise May Spissøy. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Fauskanger, Kari (2007). "Ett års turboturnéliv på veggene". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Larsen, Peter (2007). "Ny bok om norsk fotohistorie. Forfatterene svarte leserene" Intervju, Dagbladets nettavis. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Larsen, Peter ; Svensen, Kristin (2007). Norsk fotohistorie i et knips. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Larsen, Peter ; Gorseth, Olav (2007). Samler norsk fotohistorie. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Gripsrud, Silje (2007). "I snakkehjørnet:Sigrid Lien". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Larsen, Peter (2007). Intervju på TV 2's "God Morgen Norge". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Haugstad, Børre (2007). "Malerne jukset", intervju i VG. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Larsen, Peter (2007). "Portrettfoto til heider og spott". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Larsen, Peter ; Schønsby, Nina (2007). "En norsk fotohistorie er skrevet", intervju i Billedkunst. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Larsen, Peter ; Lippestad, Annette (2007). Norsk fotohistorie hos Preus. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Larsen, Peter ; Hamre, Kari (2007). "Fotografen som lokal historieforteljar". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Reme, Eva (2004). Prosjektpresentasjon, Fædrelandsvennen. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2004). Intervju om bilder som historisk kilde, WOK, NRK, P2. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Reme, Eva (2004). Prosjektpresentasjon, Agderposten. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Reme, Eva (2004). Prosjektpresentasjon i avisen "Setesdølen". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2003). I amerikafotografenes fotspor. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2003). Sliv levde vi i draumelandet. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2003). De som elsket Amerika. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2002). Fotografiet i samtidskunsten. (external link)
Museum exhibition
- Lien, Sigrid (2013). "Jovisst skal jeg frem!" Kvinner bak kamera i Hardangerfjordområdet. Utstillingen ble produsert i samarbeid med utstillingsdesigner/kurator Hanne Steien. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Utstilling: Lengselens bilder. Fotografiet i historien om den norske amerikautvandringen. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Larsen, Peter (2007). Norsk fotohistorie frå daguerreotypi til digitalisering, utstilling, Preus Museum, Horten. (external link)
Article in business/trade/industry journal
Introduction
Popular scientific lecture
- Lien, Sigrid (2009). Lengselens bilder. Fotografiet i historien om den norske amerikautvandringen. Foredrag. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2007). Utviklingen av en tidlig kunstfotografiske praksis i Norge:De første amatørene, kameraklubbene og "de profesjonelle amatørene". (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2006). «Da kunstfotografiet kom til Bergen». (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid; Reme, Eva (2004). Prosjektpresentasjon av "Lengselens bilder", Setesdalsmuseet,Valle, juni 04. (external link)
Popular scientific article
Non-fiction book
Programme participation
Report
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Modernismens fotografi. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Manets Olympia og modernismen i maleriet. nettpublisert forelesning under Seksjon for Kunsthistories fjernundernvisningskurs. (external link)
- Lien, Sigrid (2000). Fotografiet i samtidskunsten: Sam Taylor Woods "Soliloquoy I". (external link)
See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.
Ten major publications:
My publications received the following major nominations and awards: Brageprisen 2007, Det norske Samlaget, publishers’ award 2007 and 2011
- 2022 Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen, “Knowing and not Knowing: Addressing Chinese Objects in the Art Museum”, Oxford Art Journal, vol.45, Issue 1.
- 2021 Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen, “Negotiating research: Studying Sámi Photographs as Norwegian Outsiders”, in: Laura Junka-Aikio, Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Jukka Nyyssönen, Sami Research, Abingdon: Routledge, (forthcoming).
- 2021 Sigrid Lien: «Sámi silence visualised: Indigenous loss negotiated in contemporary art», in: Øivind Fuglerud et al (eds), Negotiating Memory from the Romans to the 21st Century — Damnatio Memoriae, Abingdon: Routledge.
- 2020 Sigrid Lien: “Ragnhild’s Images: Migration, Settler Colonialism and Photography”, International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 1-22.
- 2019 Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen: “Permanent Displays’ as Unsettling Layers of Epistemologies, Politics and Aesthetics”, Museum & Society, 17(3).
- 2018 Sigrid Lien: “Performing academic masculinity: Sophus Tromholt and Roland Bonaparte’s photographic accounts of Sámi people and northern landscapes”, Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, No 4 Special issue: Uses of Photography in Nordic and Arctic Indigenous Communities, guest editors: Sigrid Lien & Hilde Nielssen.
- 2017 Sigrid Lien: ”Assimilating the Wild and Primitive: Lajla and other Sámi Heroines in Norwegian fin-de-siècle photography”, in Disturbing pasts: Memories, controversies and creativity, Manchester University Press.
- 2015 Sigrid Lien: “Last seen alone on the prairie”: migration, photography, and the invisibility of women, in: Tanya Sheenan, Photography, History, Difference to Dartmouth College Press.
- 2014 Sigrid Lien: “The Aesthetics of the Bear Hunt: Contemporary Photography in the Ecology of a Sámi Museum”, in Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs. London: Ashgate.
- 2012 Sigrid Lien and Hilde Nielssen: “Absence and Presence: The Work of Photographs in the Sami Museum, Norway”, Photography & Culture, Special Issue: Photographic Legacies: Addressing the Colonial Past in Europe (guest editors: Sigrid Lien, Elizabeth Edwards, Susan Legene), Vol.5, Issue 3, Nov.2012.
Projects
2018–2020
Co PI: Photography as Contact Zone: Migration & Cultural Encounters in America (funded by Terra Foundation). Publication, workshop and conference
2014–2017
Project leader: Negotiating History: Photography in Sámi Culture (funded by the Norwegian Research Council)
2010–2012
Project leader for Norwegian team: PhotoClec, Photographs, Colonial Legacy and Museums in Contemporary European Culture (a HERA-funded, European project)
2003–2007
Project member/ project leader: Fotografiet i kulturen (funded by the Norwegian Research Council)