This is the exhibition catalog for the exhibition Bruddstykker – Fortellinger fra Elisabeth Meyers liv (Fragments – Stories from the life of Elisabeth Meyer). Elisabeth Meyer (1899–1968) was a Norwegian photographer and journalist who is best known for her photo-journalistic work from travels through Iran and India in the 1920s and 1930s. Meyer may have been the first Western woman to travel through Iran alone. The catalog and the exhibition is the result of two years of digitizing her enormous photo archive of some 50,000 images. In addition to a number of photographs from her travels, the book contains several academic articles, on both Meyer’s life, her travels and the archive. The typesetting of the general text elements is inspired by her correspondence written on her typewriter. All additional information (caption, page, column and notes) is generic and represents the archivist’s systematization. The book is in three parts, parts 1 and 3 are mainly text based, while the second part contains pictures from her travels. The hand-drawn maps are inspired by the maps in her travel books from India and Persia, published by Gyldendal in the 1930’s. The front of the cover shows a photograph of Meyer and a lion cub. The back of the cover shows the back of the same photograph where the text reads “When the photographer took a break, one of Olesen’s lion cubs would often jump onto her lap”.

• Year: 2013
• Client: Forlaget Press
• Editor: Thor Arvid Dyrerud
• Print: Elanders Fälth & Hässler, Polen
• Repro: Elanders Fälth & Hässler, Värnamo, Sweden
• Photo Editor: Hege Oulie
• Format: 210 x 260 mm
• Paper: 150 gsm Munken Pure, 150 gsm Arctic Volume Ivory
• Binding: Softcover with dust jacket
• Colors: 5+5 / 2+2 Offset
• Principal type: Elementa, F Grotesk
• Pages: 288
• Language: Norwegian
• Awards: Gold, ÅVB 2014