Kari N Berggrav was a pioneer Norwegian photojournalist and war photographer.
12 Facts About Kari Berggrav
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Kari Berggrav's career had two peaks; as a war photographer in Norway in 1940 and as a UN staff photographer in 1948.
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Kari Berggrav was the daughter of engineer Oscar Nissen and Ellen Margrethe Grete Nissen.
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Kari Berggrav's first surviving photographs are of Norwegian civil defense before the war.
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Kari Berggrav photographed and filmed his discoveries of spontaneously occurring microscopic life which he believed related to the energy of life, the orgone.
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Kari Berggrav worked awhile as a Medical Photographer at the University Hospital, becoming an expert on photomicrography.
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Kari Berggrav later became chief of the picture department at the Norwegian embassy in Washington.
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Kari Berggrav was the only female passenger on this ship, so the crew, wishing to give her some privacy, made her a cabin within the wooden cases of gold bars in the hold.
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Kari Berggrav regained contact with the psycho-analyst Wilhelm Reich, from whose circle she received treatment for mental illness from the time she first met him in Norway.
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Kari Berggrav was one of three staff photographers at the UN and took many remarkable pictures, of which those of Eleanor Roosevelt are the best known.
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Kari Berggrav died in obscurity in 1996 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Kari Berggrav has a Begonia named after her; "Begonia Kari Berggrav".