Events in the year 1953 in Norway.
The participation of women in photography goes back to the very origins of the process. Several of the earliest women photographers, most of whom were from Britain or France, were married to male pioneers or had close relationships with their families. It was above all in northern Europe that women first entered the business of photography, opening studios in Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden from the 1840s, while it was in Britain that women from well-to-do families developed photography as an art in the late 1850s. Not until the 1890s, did the first studios run by women open in New York City.
Nicoline Christine Hambro was a Norwegian politician and proponent for women's rights. She was born in Bergen; the daughter of Niels Andreas Harbitz and Elisabeth Christine Harbitz. She married educator Edvard Isak Hambro in 1880, and was the mother of politician C. J. Hambro and educator Elise Hambro. She took actively part in the administration of several contemporary political and social issues, such as welfare undertakings for female sailors and seamstresses, female police, homes for prostitutes, and pauperism. She was also a member of the Bergen City Council. She served as president of the Norwegian National Women's Council from 1916 to 1922. In 1919 she translated a collection of the adventurous stories about Baron Munchausen into Norwegian language.
Marie Høeg was a Norwegian photographer and suffragist. Høeg's published work was traditional in nature, while her private photography, including images of and created with her partner, Bolette Berg, challenged ideas of gender. She was the founder of the Horten Discussion Association, which is still active today. Høeg also started the Horten Branch of the National Association for Women's Right to Vote, the Horten Women's Council and the Horten Tuberculosis Association.
Elisabeth Helmer was an early Norwegian professional female photographer who had a studio in Grimstad. She was also one of the town's most important women's rights activists.
Louise Doris Sophie Pauline Abel was a German-born Norwegian photographer who from 1864, together with her husband Hans Abel, ran a studio and photographic supplies business in Christiania, today's Oslo.
Augusta Charlotte Solberg (1856–1922) was an early Norwegian professional photographer who managed a studio in Bergen from 1885.
Hulda Marie Bentzen (1858–1930) was an early professional female Norwegian photographer who established studios in Bergen and Voss.
Agnes Nyblin née Janson was a Norwegian photographer. She started a photography business in Bergen with her husband but he died in 1894. She ran the business until 1911.
This is a timeline of women in photography tracing the major contributions women have made to both the development of photography and the outstanding photographs they have created over the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.