Photographs From Telemark

Deborah Bell Photographs is pleased to present Dag Alveng: Photographs from an exhibition of large-scale black-and-white photographs the artist made in Norway's scenic Telemark region from 2020-2021. In 2015, the historic Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site in Telemark, Norway, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Soon afterward, the Telemark Kunstmuseum commissioned Dag Alveng to create an exhibition and accompanying catalogue of photographs to celebrate the preservation of this important territory. Five of those photographs comprise the current exhibition. Telemark is a large county in southern Norway that stretches from the mountains to the North Sea. Not only is this idyllic terrain the seat of Norway's technological progress and economic expansion in the first half of the 20th century; it also marks the site of Norway' spectacular achievement in preventing possible atomic disaster during World War II. Alveng travelled throughout Telemark's various municipalities -- Fjone, Nesland, Notodden, Rjukan, and Tinn -- where he photographed its stunning terrain of clear lakes, broad rivers, deep gorges and cliffs, and its magnificent waterfalls, nature's stage for this incredible story of industrial development.

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