Author Archive for Anna Boman

Remix Photo by Maja Larsson (CC by-nc-sa). Original photos by unknown photographer (Swedish National Heritage Board) and by Dolan Halbrook. (Click on the photo above to view the photo on Flickr, with links to the originals.)

On March 17th, the Swedish National Heritage Board celebrates three rewarding and exciting years on The Commons on Flickr, showing and sharing photos with no known copyright restrictions from our collections.

Our presence on The Commons has largely responded to the expectations we had in the beginning. Here is what we wrote on this blog on March 17th 2009.

What happened since?

Let the facts speak:

• More than 1 980 000 views on our account on Flickr Commons.
• More than 3 750 Flickr contacts, from more than 70 countries worldwide.
• A clear effect of more visitors to our photo database Kulturmiljöbild through the persistent links.
• 9 % of the photos we show on Flickr Commons have been provided with new information, thanks to attentive and devoted Flickr Community members. This user generated knowledge has helped to improve the information in our photo database.
• The photos have been commented on, tagged, shown in groups and galleries on Flickr and marked as favourites. They have been used in media, on websites and blogs, and spread through social media. They have also served for fun and creativity being remixed.

Slottsgatan Street in Malmö, Skåne, Sweden. The street was identified by a Flickr member who also posted a recent comparative photo in a comment. Photo: Unknown (Click on the photo above to view the photo on Flickr Commons, with comments.)

Gustaf, Carin and Lilly in Järvsö, Hälsingland, Sweden. From our latest collection with colour photos by Fredrik Bruno, from the 1940s in Sweden and Norway.

Winter in Humlegården park in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo: Carl Curman

Some gratifying examples of media effects:

• The Norwegian media ABC Nyheter wrote a number of articles helping to locate 16 photos from Norway by Carl Curman.
• A discussion on German Wikipedia helped to locate two photos from Germany by Carl Curman. This and this. The quest was also on Flickr’s German blog and on Twitter.
• The Spanish media El Pais wrote an article about the Spanish photos from 1878 by Carl Curman.

A big and warm Thank You to all you who have made our Flickr Commons experience so successful and fun! See you on The Commons! :)

One of Sweden’s oldest rune stones in Krogsta, Uppland. Photo: Erik Brate

>> Anna Boman works with Flickr Commons at the Swedish National Heritage Board

Skanstull in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo: Fredrik Bruno, 1943

The 1940:s in Sweden and Norway – in colour! The Swedish National Heritage Board presents a new collection on Flickr Commons with photos by Fredrik Daniel Bruno (1882-1971), who was a town engineer in Hudiksvall in the northern part of central Sweden. He was also a diligent amateur photographer.

Fredrik Bruno took colour photos on travels around Sweden and Norway in the 1940:s and early 1950s, loading his camera with either Kodachrome or Agfacolor diapositive film. Most of the travels in Sweden were probably official and related to his profession. His field of interest as a town engineer is well reflected in the frequent motifs of towns and cities, buildings and public parks. Sweden’s two largest cities Stockholm, the capital, and Göteborg (Gothenburg) are well represented. Some photos are from the Swedish countryside and some are from Norway. The Norwegian photos, all from 1948, show towns and landscapes. They seem to be from a private holiday trip.

Röros, Norway. Photo: Fredrik Bruno, 1948

The new collection “Fredrik Bruno” is arranged in two sets, “Sweden” and “Norway”. Most of the photos are from the 1940:s, a few are from the early 1950:s.

Some of the photos from Sweden will be linked in the description field to a recent photo in our photo database, showing exactly the same view in 2010-2011. These photos are taken within a project at the Swedish National Heritage Board, where selected views catched by Fredrik Bruno have been photographed anew to illustrate change (or lack of change) over time, mostly in the urban environment.

Join us on a colourful trip around Sweden and Norway! Hope you’ll enjoy – we really look forward to share these photos with you, and we hope to see comparative photos in the comments. :)

Stigbergskajen quay in Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden. Photo: Fredrik Bruno, 1944

>> Anna Boman works with Flickr Commons at the Swedish National Heritage Board

Bearded man on horseback. Sweden, 1930s. Photo: Einar Erici

Time to present a new set on Flickr Commons, with a mix of bearded Swedish men, some wives and families of these men, some monks at Valamo monastery in Karelia and some Swedish churches and church organs. The man behind the camera was Einar Erici (1885–1965), a Swedish physician and renowned expert of church organs, who’s archival collection is held by the Swedish National Heritage Board.

The primary photographical motifs of Einar Erici were churches and church organs, according to his field of science. However, main focus of this set will be on another photographical domain of Erici, namely people. For some reason, he took photos of ordinary Swedish men wearing beards, but also of some of these men’s wives and families. Some photos are of monks at Valamo monastery in Karelia (Finland at that time, today Russia).

The photos of people are mainly from the 1930s while the photos of Swedish churches are taken during the first half of the 20th century. We hope you’ll enjoy these interesting images!

And who knows, maybe some guys viewing these photos might get inspired to grow a beard… :)

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Mr and Mrs Lundberg. Sweden, 1930s. Photo: Einar Erici

>> Anna Boman is a member of the Flickr Commons team at the Swedish National Heritage Board

The Swedish National Heritage Board has recently attained and passed the imposing number of 2000 contacts on Flickr.

By: Nordiska museet, Photo: Birgit Brånvall. CC (by-nc-nd) Nordiska museet is one of our contacts on Flickr.

Imagine that so many Flickr members – individuals as well as institutions – are especially interested in our images – and we in theirs. When marking the Swedish National Heritage Board as a contact, they can easily follow our recent uploads of new photos and keep track of our photostream on Flickr Commons.

When we add our contacts back, a random display of their buddy icons is shown on our Profile page. The diversity of the pictures shown by our Flickr contacts is just amazing. A wonderful global picture cocktail, so to speak. View some more samples:

Rail Walk and Gyro Park. Photo: “BellaArt” Laura Nicole. CC (by-nc-nd).

Halmstad amusementpark Äventyrsland. Photo: Håkan Dahlström. CC (by)

Ship’s cook Adolf Henrik Lindstrøm. By: National Library of Norway, Photo: Narve Skarpmoen. CC (by)

Seoul 2009. Photo: “sloanro” Robin Sloan. CC (by)

Opening of a new municipal library in Kulturhuset/Sergelstorg, Stockholm. Photo: “Anna-Stina” Anna-Stina Takala. CC (by)

Our contact number 2000 turned out to be “lame2010“, who shows nice photos from Brasil.

Thank you all our contacts and friends – it’s just great to share pictures with you on Flickr. :-)

>>Anna Boman is a member of the Flickr Commons team at the Swedish National Heritage Board