“Akerselva” seen through Edvard Munch’s sister Inger Munch’s camera lens the summer of 1929.
Inger Munch’s own introduction to the picture: In the summer of 1929 my brother, Edvard Munch suggested that I’d take some pictures of the different houses we had lived in at "Grünerløkka". I did so, and went up to "Brekke" and "Kjelsås" farm where we lived during the summer of 1875 and 76. While doing this I got the idea of taking pictures along the whole of the "Akerselva", from where it starts to where it runs in to the Oslo fjord. As my brother spent some years of his youth in no 7 "Fossveien" some of his earliest paintings are from this part of Oslo.
Here’s a Picasa gallery showing all the 68 photos in Inger Munch’s book
A lot of what you see on Inger Munch’s pictures are still there to day. A walk along the "Akerselva" is and has always been among my favourites and I walk the whole river from it’s outlet to the fjord at least 4-5 times a year. It is one of the things I miss the most when I stay away from my home town for too long.
It may lack the grandeur of The Thames, The Seine and other large town rivers. But it has close to 60 water falls, trout and crayfish, woodlands, old industry and charm and it is my town river –Ted
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