Daniel Nyblin

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Carl Petter Daniel Dyrendahl Nyblin (30 June 1856, Drammen - 19 July 1923, Helsinki) was a Norwegian photographer who spent most of his life in Finland.

Biography

His father was the sculptor, Carl Petter Dyrendahl Nyblin (1818-1883). After studying at the photography studio of the

. In addition to portraits and landscapes, he created reproductions of paintings and photographed theatrical productions.

He also sold cameras and other photographic equipment and, after amateur photography became popular in the 1880s, he opened a store expressly for that purpose. In 1889, he was one of the founders of the Amateur Photography Club, where he was a teacher and lecturer. His interests extended to other aspects of the visual arts as well, including oil painting. In 1885, he fashioned a memorial to the Finnish War, which was installed in Nykarleby.

He became involved with the Finnish Photographers' Association in 1897, but always preferred working with enthusiastic amateurs. In 1903, he was the primary organizer of Finland's first ohotography exhibition, at the

, from which he never fully recovered.

Although he relinquished active management of the studio in 1904, when his wife Wera died, as of 2021 it was still owned and operated by the Nyblin family.

Selected photographs

• 
  Adolf Paul
• 
  Architects: Armas Lindgren, Eliel Saarinen,
  Albertina Östman and Herman Gesellius
• 
  Singer Aina Mannerheim [fi]
• 
  Hilda Flodin

Sources

• Detailed biography @ the Biografiskt lexikon för Finland
• Detailed biography and references @ the Suomen valokuvataiteen museo [fi] (Finnish Museum of Photography)

External links

• Daniel Nyblin – Artwork Glass Negative Archives collections by Hanna-Leena Paloposki @ Lähteillä
• A History of the Amateur Photography Club Archived 2014-10-23 at the Wayback Machine @ the Club website