From the Department of Interestingness, in association with the Photography Desk in the Department of Creative Bank Accounting
In 1893 a mathematics student, 19 year old Carl Størmer, had a crush on a girl. Being the shy creeper that he was purchased a spy camera so he could get a photo of her without her consent.
He got that photo of her, but surprisingly the relationship never developed further than that. However, young Carl kept on taking candid photos of people on the streets of Oslo, and personally I'm grateful for these human snapshots.
Most photos from this time period are stuffy and posed making that time period seem distant and unrelatable. Størmer's photos peel back the formality and show us that these folks weren't so different from us. This kind of stuff is the closte to backwards time traveling I'll ever get, so I just bask in it from time to time.
